The year-end is always a favorite time for "bad guys" to spread viruses or distribute spams. This year, although it is not yet Christmas, Bkis" Honeypot has collected a number of emails with malicious codes taking advantage of the event

 The year-end is always a favorite time for "bad guys" to spread viruses or distribute spams. This year, although it is not yet Christmas, Bkis" Honeypot has collected a number of emails with malicious codes taking advantage of the event.

These emails claim themselves as Coca cola promotion campaign for Christmas season with attractive contents: “Play our fantastic new online game for your chance to WIN a trip to the Bahamas and get all Coca Cola drinks for free in the rest of your life. See the attachment for details.” When users open the attachment, the computers will get infected with an backdoor and hackers will gain remote control of victims' + char(39)+ N' system as well as steal important data.

To protect your computer against these malicious attacks, Bkis recommends users to stay alert with attractive information about the year-end holidays. Besides, you should update the latest version of your antivirus software, do not open attachments of unknown origins, especially .exe, .com, .pif and .bat files.