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bank fraud email trojan

hubb · 2013-10-24 18:49:01

I have had a few of thes HTML bank Fraud trojans the past few weeks come into my email and immediately dealt with by my Avast free antivirus software. This is worrying as I have online bank accounts with Halifax, Santander and Natwest. They seem to push using Rapport software but I always decline because I tried it once…

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henm2 Posts: 723 Forumite

28 October 2013 at 5:02PM

Cryptolocker seems to be a hot topic at the moment http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2013/10/cryptolocker-ransomware-what-you-need-to-know/

As always take care what you click particularly with emails. Even with a safe linux or mac based operating system you are best regularly backing up your important files to external hard drive just in case.

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