Info about Online streaming websites for FIFA Worldcup 2010 – Things you should worry about
Since the FIFA Worldcup is going on, this is the best time to spread the malwares. So the malware coders might have been working on very hard for this time. So its you guys who should be worried about.
If you are careful about a few things, you don’t have to worry about anything!
1. Everyone will be trying to watch the online streaming videos for WORLDCUP. But searching these things might cause you to reach the wrong page and it will be the last thing you will ever want. Some websites will be loaded with lots of malwares while some other will be loaded with porn. In both cases it could cause problems for you, especially if you are at work.
So if you reach some pages and it is asking you to download and install any missing codec, don’t download it. Don’t accept any files from that website. Most probably it will be some kind of trojan.
2. Now one other the most effective threat is by using emails. If you are getting any emails saying Worldcup updates or something similar to that, don’t download the attachment. It may be a PDF file. But it may have stuffed with some bad code, which can probably install some kind of trojan in your system.
Read more about this from these links
- http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/fifa-world-cup-themed-malware-campaign-spreads-malicious-pdf-files/5903
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/latest-online-scam-targets-fifa-fans/
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/fifa-and-gaza-attack-tweets-dump-backdoors/
- http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/targeted-attack-uses-fifa-world-cup-2010-hook
- http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/fifa-world-cup-used-lure-victims-targeted-attack
- http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/174182,fifa-world-cup-spam-strikes-again.aspx
