Tips: Beware of the Kamsutra worm; Caution before opening email attachments

Sex, Love and the ways of Earning easy money over internet are the most selling words and this is why these words always attracts hackers, as these words easily attracts a person attention. Once again the word sex came around in a new form of virus and is named under the a very famous word from Indian Sanskrit language “Kamsutra“…..

This is today one of the most talked security threats among the tech gurus. Though still this virus is spreading through e-mail attachment and can have varied subjects likeĀ  “The Best Videoclip Ever,” “School girl fantasies gone bad,””A Great Video,” “give me a kiss,” “Fwd: Photo,” “Fw: Sexy,” “You Must View This Videoclip!” “Miss Lebanon 2006,” etc. and have an ppt attachment. So if you have got such mails the first advice is not to open such mails if you don’t recognize the source.

What happens you have opened such mails with an PPT attachment, when you open the ppt attachment though there is a actual powerpoint presentation to so that you don’t get suspicious but behind the scenes, a Troze/Backdoor-RFM named Trojan virus will infect your computer, with the help of which, the hackers can easily access your personal information contained in your PC.

So the best way even if you have opened such mails to check all of your email accounts and change the passwords if it is possible.

As the virus being relatively new so the most of the antivirus tools are still not able to detects it so the best way is be safe not opening such mails as protection is always better than cure.

And try to reformat your pc if possible and make sure you had System Restore Feature disabled.

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