At a time when most people worldwide have been celebrating the election victory of Barack Obama as the first black US President, criminals are taking advantage and using the people’s interest in Obama to steal their personal information.
Hackers are using the Barack Obama’s US election victory to steal information via emails.
These bogus emails with headlines like ‘Obama win preferred in world poll’ contain a link inviting Internet users to download a link to see a speech by Barack Obama. However these download links places a Trojan virus on the computer that could help steal a user’s personal information.
So, just be careful about some of the emails that you get. If your computer is already infected you will need to get some up-to-date antivirus software to clean up your computer.
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November 8, 2008
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