Malware mail attachments

Malware comes in many forms and you always need to be on your guard against it. One of the most common ways that it will get on your computer is as an email attachment. It always pays to be highly suspicious of messages with any form of attachment.

Usually the email has some sort of message that either tells you right out to open the attachment or it is worded to make you curious about it and want to open it. Here is an example of the former:

DEAR CUSTOMER , Recipient's address is wrong Print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our department.

The message claims to come from a postal service, but it is a fake and the attachment will infect your computer with some sort of malware if you open it.

Here is another type:

Service: xxxxxxxx. com 9232 Girls Currently Online

Fotos: 6 fotos in attached file.

You might be tempted to open the attachments and see what the girls are like just out of curiosity, but if you do this you are likely to be infected by malware.

Apparently in one single day in mid August 25 billion emails with malicious attachments were sent. Is this really true? I don't know, but even if it is an order of magnitude out, it's still an incredible number of malicious mails. I think a large number of them ended up in my email inbox. They just got deleted though.