The email — which also sometimes uses the subject line “Just For you” — contains a link to what appears to be a downloadable PDF document but is actually an executable (.exe) file in disguise.
If the link is clicked, the user is prompted to download the file, which installs malicious software onto the host computer.
After infecting the computer, the virus will try to spread the email to every address in the user’s contact list, while also attempting to disable the computer’s security systems. The virus then attempts to install password-stealing programs, according to McAfee’s Threat Centre.
On Thursday, “here you have virus email” was the second most-searched topic on Google, behind Marvin Sapp, a gospel singer who lost his wife to cancer.
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