Christmas could increase malware

We like to keep our clients and the people around us free from malware and alike. Therefore we thought that we would provide you with some information that you may find of some use.

Research that has been carried out by Websense has warned that Christmas could see an increase in the amount of malware that is being sent. These emails will tend to have links in them which takes the user to an animated card. However, when the user clicks on the link they are effectively allowing malware onto their machine. Once this happens the user will not know that the malware has been added and will not know what information they are leaking to other people. Therefore our advice at Christmas would be to ensure that all of your antivirus software is kept up to date and we encourage that you don’t use these links which take you to animated Christmas card. We don’t want to sound like the Grinch but we do want to look after your IT security.