Threat from new virus-infected emails which take over your PC even if you DON'T open their attachments
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Threat from new virus-infected emails which take over your PC even if you DON'T open their attachments
By
Rob Cole
Last updated at 7:46 AM on 2nd February 2012
Cyber attack: The new attack can infect PCs even if people DON'T open email attachments - leaving even savvy web users vulnerable to attack
A new class of cyber attack is threatening PCs - emails which infect PCs without the user having to open an attachment.
The user will not even be warned this is happening - the only message that appears is 'loading'.
The email automatically downloads malicious software into your computer from elsewhere the moment a user clicks to open it.
The mails themselves are not infected - and thus will not 'set off' many web-security defence packages.
Security experts say that the development is 'particularly dangerous'.
'This sort of spam also affects cautious users which
would never open an unknown attachment or link,' say security experts Eleven Research Team.
Previous
generations of email-borne viruses and trojans required users to click
on an attachment - often an office document such as a PDF.
The new emails - dubbed 'drive-by emails' - have been detected 'in the wild' by computer researchers Eleven Research Team.
'This driveby spam automatically downloads malware when the e-mail is opened in the e-mail client,' says Eleven Research Team.
'Previous malware e-mails required the user to click on a link or open an attachment for the PC to be infected.'
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The new generation of e-mail-borne malware consists of HTML e-mails which automatically downloads malware when the e-mail is opened.'
'This is similar to so-called driveby downloads which infect a PC by opening an infected website in the browser.'
The new attack loads malicious software from remote websites into your PC as soon as you open an email
The current wave of emails arrive with the title 'Banking Security Update.'
To stay safe, the security company advises switching all security settings in email software to maximum, and updating your browser to the latest version so it's protected against malicious software.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2094982/Threat-new-virus-infected-emails-PC-DONT-open-attachments.html#ixzz1lJT806vT
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