“McDonalds wishes you Merry Christmas!” email Threat Level:

“McDonalds wishes you Merry Christmas!” email is a spoofed McDonald’s email that downloads a Trojan onto your machine. This “McDonalds wishes you Merry Christmas!” email offers you McDonald’s coupons, in the form of an attachment, coupon.zip. This “McDonalds wishes you Merry Christmas!” email attachment is actually a Trojan, which will likely rip a backdoor into your PC so hackers can access your system.

So much for a merry Christmas.

If you downloaded this “McDonalds wishes you Merry Christmas!” email attachment, delete the attachment immediately. You should also run an antivirus/anti-spyware scan, so that software will catch this bastard.

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Sality.U is a virus that can log all your keystrokes, and allow a hacker to access your PC through a backdoor security hole. Sality.U may insert itself into your system’s processes, making it extremely difficult to remove manually. Sality.U may have infected your computer through an email attachment.

Unless zombie computers and identity theft sound like a good weekend to you, let me show you how to remove Sality.U.

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