As a best practice, users should always exercise extreme caution when opening unsolicited attachments from both known and unknown sources," said Microsoft in a statement sent to silicon.com sister site CNET News.com.
Ruckman recommended that corporations either delete the attachments at the server level or block messages with the "your account" subject line. The worm, which is being dubbed ‘mimail’, attempts to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that...
My favourite web browser is not Internet Explorer, and my regular email program is not Outlook. If you do visit the website that is mentioned in the email, you automatically download a Trojan that starts to monitor your keystrokes with the aim of...
However, these attachments were easily spotted by antivirus programs and eliminated. Outlook uses elements of Internet Explorer to render the HTML for its preview pane, so to avoid the new Bagle worms, users should apply a patch for Internet...
Spammers who send pornographic pictures in the hope of enticing the recipient to signing up to an adult website have discovered a way to bypass Outlook 2003's security features, which are designed to stop potentially offensive content being...
Victims will receive a mail with the subject line "Hi" and a message body reading: "Hi. It introduces itself with the line "Happy New Year", and the body text reads: "Hi I can't describe my feelings But all I can say is Happy New Year :) bye".
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