Dangerous New Worm Spreading On The Internet
The next time you go to your inbox look before you open your new messages. A new form of the “Storm Worm” is slamming into e-mail inboxes worldwide.
“Hundreds injured and dozens killed”…it wasn’t too long ago that that powerful storm ripped through parts of Europe.
And now that single news event has served as a Trojan horse housing a worm, sent to your email with a subject line: “239 Dead As Storm Batters Europe.”
“So people will click on it and they’ve been infected,” says Dan Young, CEO of PC Laptops.
The “Storm Worm”, as it’s called. It’s one of the larger worms to attack personal computers around the world.
It destroys data, erases information and its primary goal is to steal your personal identity.
Chances are you won’t know it until it’s too late.
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