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GUEST,ChrisJBady Tech: New Email Virus (20) Tech: New Email Virus 27 Feb 17


There's a clever virus that's suddenly appeared. It issues 'Enter' key strokes at odd times or when triggered by some event.

I think that its designed to emulate clicks on emails with single URLs which lead to rogue websites - the so-called Yahoo Mail / Wordpress rootkit trojan virus (Google this).

I got it when I received a damned email about restoring hair loss. The text of this was embedded in an image. There was a link for unsuscribing from further such emails. I clicked on that and saw that it was going to take me to a rogue web site itself until I realised the danger and immediately closed the browser.

But likely the damage had been done by then.

It appears that the Enter key is emulated when typing text. The effect in Mudcat is to post text before it is ready to send.

The more serious effect in emails is to emukate clicking on a rogue URL and being sent to a rogue website laden with trojan viruses (virii?).

Take care.


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