Monday 16 June 2014

IT Technology: Gameover Zeus and CryptoLocker Malwares

Currently, Gameover Zeus and CryptoLocker are very popular malwares that infect Windows computer. For more information, go to the following websites:
1.  https://www.getsafeonline.org/nca/
2.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_(Trojan_horse)

You can go to the following website to test whether the application is infected ( without installing anything ):
www.f-secure.com/gameoverzeus

Hopefully you see the following image said you are not infected.

In addition, the Internet is currently seeing a surge of malicious email traffic containing the Cryptolocker malware. The bulk of this traffic is coming through trusted free file share programs disguised as voicemail messages or faxes.

Cryptolocker is an especially destructive virus that will encrypt all of your data, including data on any shared folders on the fileserver that you have access to, and any USB drives that are plugged in. Cyber criminals then force you to pay to get the data back, with no assurance they will actually follow through if you do.

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