Watch out for New Year’s worm
The bad guys never rest and they are trying to take advantage of the New Year’s holiday. A worm email holiday message with a Trojan is circulating. I’ve received several myself. ZDNet reports:
An e-mail worm disguised as a New Year’s greeting is making the rounds on the Internet.
Worm-laden messages are titled “Happy New Year” and contain an attachment called either postcard.exe or postcard.zip, according to experts at VeriSign’s iDefense Labs, which provides information on security flaws and exploits. If the attachment is opened, malicious software is downloaded from the Internet and can infect computers running Windows operating systems.
Have a Happy New Year but be careful about what you click on.