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Email with Malicious HTML Attachments

31

Jan

2012

Malware is often embedded in email as compressed attachments (such as .zip, .rar, etc.). Recently, however, Symantec has noticed an increase in malicious email attacks with .htm (HTML) attachments. Here is what the message looks like in your inbox: The attack contains a .htm attachment and obfuscated JavaScript is embedded in the coding of the […]

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AVG Web threat weekly update – Week 2

11

Jan

2012

1. Is FakeAV Dead? No sooner did the world’s Internet users get the message five or so years ago that they should be running an anti-virus product on their PCs than the dark side jumped in to sell fake products that look and act like real security products. For the past five or so years, […]

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Baby cancer and heart transplant hoaxes on Facebook

10

Jan

2012

Facebook is a fertile breeding ground for hoaxes, spam and chain letters. Users of the social network have to wade through a seemingly constant tide of messages shared by their well-meaning friends, making it hard to sort the wheat from the chaff. Here’s an example that is spreading across Facebook right now, claiming that Facebook […]

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