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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Here's yet another attempt to infect your Computer with a Virus Trojan, Malware. And some of them are Cross Platform. They may be able to infect Windows, Mac and Linux Systems. So, Don't click on anything in one of these e-mails!

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Spam Mails Masquerading as WhatsApp Circulating, Cautions Webroot

According to Webroot, the security company, spam mails posing as messages from WhatsApp an instant-messaging (IM) software program used across platforms that caters to more than 300m subscribers actively using the application at present are presently getting distributed for maligning as many computers as possible.

The most recent version of the junk e-mail run presently asserts that there's certain "1 New Voicemail/ Voice Message Notification" e-mail for the user to read from his inbox.

Disturbingly, Webroot indicates that the attached file regarding so-called voicemail is a fake that also carries one Trojan downloader, which apparently pulls down more malware via its central command-and-control (C&C) system.

Webroot says that this additional malicious program has been detected as Trojan.Win32.Sharik.qhd.
- See more at: http://www.spamfighter.com/News-18647-Spam-Mails-Masquerading-as-WhatsApp-Circulating-Cautions-Webroot.htm#sthash.kfFP5M7S.dpuf

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