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TECHNOLOGY

MALICIOUS EMAIL DOWNLOADS ‘DRIVE-BY VIRUS’ JUST BY CLICKING OPEN

Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:57pm by Liz Klimas

In the good ol’ days, one had to actually be duped into opening the attachment — or clicking the link — of a virus-infected email. Now, a new type of PC virus comes without warning.

This is the subject line you need to watch out for: Banking Security Update

The Daily Mail explains how the virus works:

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.

Think your security system will catch the email? Chances are probably not — unless you have your security software set at maximum level. The Daily Mail reports that because the email itself isn’t necessarily infected, many security systems will not pick up on it. Security experts were reported as saying the virus is “particularly dangerous.”

Eleven Research Team states that the new virus is called a “drive-by virus,” consisting of an HTML email that only requires the user to open the mail.

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Your mac is not immune it is just irrelevant so nobody is yet writing virus's for them. They are just as vulnerable. Your numbers are growing and I for one am going to laugh like hell when mac users start crying the blues about viruses.

GB_Gandalf wrote:

Your mac is not immune it is just irrelevant so nobody is yet writing virus's for them. They are just as vulnerable. Your numbers are growing and I for one am going to laugh like hell when mac users start crying the blues about viruses.

The Mac OS is similar to Linux. I use Linux and it is impossible for the PC to just start downloading something. You have to give permissions for every damn thing. A pain in the arse sometimes but it keeps your PC safe.


I did get one of those emails a few months back. I backtracked it to a server In Bedford, England and then to the South of France but my net skills weren't good enough to go any further. A great pity. I hate crackers.


No it wasn't the same. It was just a fairly good attempt to make me click onto a website pretending to be from my bank. Just a scam, not a virus.

mikgof wrote:

GB_Gandalf wrote:

Your mac is not immune it is just irrelevant so nobody is yet writing virus's for them. They are just as vulnerable. Your numbers are growing and I for one am going to laugh like hell when mac users start crying the blues about viruses.

The Mac OS is similar to Linux. I use Linux and it is impossible for the PC to just start downloading something. You have to give permissions for every damn thing. A pain in the arse sometimes but it keeps your PC safe.


I did get one of those emails a few months back. I backtracked it to a server In Bedford, England and then to the South of France but my net skills weren't good enough to go any further. A great pity. I hate crackers.


No it wasn't the same. It was just a fairly good attempt to make me click onto a website pretending to be from my bank. Just a scam, not a virus.

are you IN THE MATRIX

are you IN THE MATRIX



No. Never seen it never will.

mikgof wrote:

are you IN THE MATRIX



No. Never seen it never will.

I would have joined the machines because they are all white and kill niggers