'Drive-by' email infects readers immediately

31 January 2012, 6:12 pm

For the past few years, drive-by downloads have been the bane of computer-security professionals. These malicious Trojans lurk inside seemingly innocuous Web pages and try to infect any browser that visits them. If a user doesn't have strong anti-virus software installed on his PC, he'll be immediately infected just by looking at the Web page.... Read More »

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