Teens and young adults interested in downloading High School Musical-related music and video on peer-to-peer networks to be careful of malware, warns Panda Security.
While this may be obvious to older computer uses, younger consumers are not yet experienced in social engineering used by malware writers, the security vendor said on Friday a press release.
Social engineering is not new, of course, and its creators are constantly trying new ways to hook people in. day after presidential elections in the U.S., for example, had a wave of Barack Obama related video links that attempted to download malicious software, as well.
If a person opens a high school musical-themed video or song of each partnership to partnership as eMule or eDonkey, his or her computer may be infected by contaminated with VB.ADQ Agent.KGR of Troyan, ad software Koolbar, or other strain of malicious code.
Panda recommends to be careful when downloading files. In particular, notice that the file extension. Many of the malicious files have an extension. “Executive,” but this is rarely the case for legitimate music or video file.
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