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Thank you Bob.

cheers Bob..........

Thanks for bringing this to our attention

Mary xx

A phishing e mail has started to appear, has a message that your password has been reset, do not access the attachment!
Please tell your friends.
I have posted this on Tips board also. Bob

Edited to bring you the science bit!

Another new virus is spreading through social networks, this time, via Facebook. This one – known as Bredolab – masks itself as a “Password Reset Confirmation Email,” appears to come from Facebook, and attaches a file that purports to contain a new password.

That file is actually a trojan horse that will download a host of nasty files from the Web and infect your computer with them. Email security firm MX Lab explains further:


“Bredolab is a trojan horse that downloads and executes files from the Internet, such as rogue anti-spyware. To bypass firewalls, it injects its own code into legitimate processes svchost.exe and explorer.exe. Bredolab contains anti-sandbox code (the trojan might quit itself when an external program investigates its actions).”