REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, WASHINGTON - Do not arbitrarily open the email delivery, in spite of the people who glance similar to your friends. Now, increasingly sophisticated spammers manipulate the message as if from a familiar person.
The purpose of sending spam is also not accidentally advertise per se, but for the purpose was commendable. "Spam is not just about the disorder, it is used by cyber criminals as a means to grow their operations," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos pollsters. "You should not even be tempted to open a spam message, because it can only take a second to effectively hand over control of your computer to spammers: If your computer does not become part of a botnet. You are also invited further malware infections, which can jeopardize your personal data or banking. "
Sophos also recorded an increase in social networking spam during the third quarter of 2010, with the 'onMouseOver' is widely reported the exploit to create spam on Twitter tweet, and assembles a scam to make money.
"What is interesting about the fraud up is that they exploit human weakness to spread - tricking users to fill out a questionnaire if they want to see pictures or videos that surprise might not even exist," added Cluley. "Unfortunately, these scams continue to proliferate, with new ones popping up every day, and up seems to not be able to kill them permanently."
The best way for computer users to reduce the risk of disturbed is to run an anti-spam and anti-malware protection, reasonable behave when online, and ensure system up-to-date with security patches.
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