Monday, December 22, 2008

Obama Spam attacks Containing Virus


Jakarta - President elect Barack Obama the United States shortly kepresidenannya future career start. But for spammers, the spam attacks around the U.S. president is elected not finished.

According to Symantec Messaging and Web Security, which cited detikINET Wednesday (17/12/2008), while John McCain has been known to lose in the U.S. presidential election in November and still detect spammers send e-mail attack their garbage.

In fact, the spam attacks are more vicious because it is equipped with malicious code. Subject of the selected actors are enough to provoke interest menelisik recipient of the e-mail, such as' Mr. Obama Be First Black President 'or the other.

The message is that Obama has been selected to become the U.S. President to-44 and the recipient of the message are encouraged to click a link written, 'Watch His amazing speech at the November 5'.

However, beware misguided. For, by clicking on the link internet users will acquire the download malicious code. Next, the computer can be infected with the virus will be the victim or other malicious programs.

In addition to video, cyber criminals also try to captivate potential victims with offers of money metal pesiden Barack Obama. Bids are admitted ngaku-printing come from New England Mint, which offers the history of this coin with a price of U.S. $ 9.95 plus shipping.

However, again, there is no good intention behind the bid. The purpose of the spam is to get credit card information from e-mail users who are not vigilant. (Ash / fyk)
Ardhi Suryadhi - detikinet

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