Jeremy Rowley reports:
Numerous university email accounts have been exposed to an email containing an attachment with the ability to steal information off of computers.
“This is a particularly bad one, as you might expect,” Vice President of Information Technology on campus Robert Aylward said. “It essentially attempts to steal confidential data on your machine. It drops lots of adware and spyware onto the PC, highjacks the browser and changes its default settings and also seriously degrades the performance of the computer.”
This virus came in the form of a ‘.zip’ file that 500 people at the university received in their email inbox, Aylward said. An estimated 100 of these people have opened the file and exposed their computer to the hackers behind the message.
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