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It does not stop a virus from inflicting damage on a computer if a malicious attachment is opened.
No fewer than 30percentt of phishing messages are opened and 12percentt of targets went on to open the malicious attachment or link.
Hackers had infiltrated the company's corporate network using an email that tricked employees into opening a malicious attachment known generally as malware.
They might spoof your manager's email address, or send a malicious attachment related to your job role or field of study.
Traditionally cybercriminals have used email as their preferred vector of attack, employing various social engineering tactics in order to entice the recipient into executing the malicious attachment.
Without the dominance of Microsoft's products, in particular the e-mail program Outlook, the message declaring "I love you" and bearing a malicious attachment could not have propelled itself around the world last week, clogging servers and destroying files on its way.Microsoft indeed bears much responsibility, despite Mr Gates's protestations to the contrary.
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Emails allow the attacker to deliver malicious attachments or links to malicious websites.
However, cyber criminals use advanced tactics to disguise malicious attachments and sites to trick users into further action.
The best countermeasure against malicious attachments is to avoid using attachments at all, and share links to cloud-hosted documents instead.
Virus writers also took advantage of the disaster by e-mailing malicious attachments posing as photographs of the storm's devastation.
Instead, the company explains that "it's likely that you received emails containing malicious attachments, links to malicious software downloads, or links to fake websites that are designed to steal your passwords or other personal information".
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