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Sep 02

MALWARE ALERT!

MICRONAUTIX MALWARE ALERT!

If you receive an email from one of your friends that ask you to join ‘DesktopDating‘, DO NOT CLICK ANYTHING IN THIS EMAIL. JUST DELETE IT!

THIS EMAIL DID NOT KNOWINGLY COME FROM YOUR FRIEND.
IT IS MALWARE WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING ALL YOUR INTERNET ACCOUNT PASSWORDS AND EMAIL ACCOUNTS.

Any button or link you click with take you to -=>

Once you click on a link or a button in this email; the email will steal all your passwords to every internet account you’ve ever visited and will copy your address book, duplicate itself, and then send out an exact copy of itself to all the contacts in your address book. When your contacts get the email from “Desktop Dating”; the email will say it came from you and start the process allover again, infecting your contact’s PC; stealing all their passwords and emailing all their contacts.

If you clicked on any of the links or buttons in the DesktopDating email. Please take the following steps;
#1) DISCONNECT/UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTER FROM THE INTERNET.
#2) CLEAR ‘DESKTOPDATING MALWARE‘ FROM YOUR PC. (ANY PC TECH SPECIALIST CAN HELP YOU WITH THIS. MY OFFICE NUMBER IS 617-313-8015)
#3) CHANGE ALL YOUR INTERNET ACCOUNT PASSWORDS (THIS INCLUDES ANY ACCOUNTS YOU CHECK ON THE INTERNET; BANKING, RETIREMENT, EMAIL ACCOUNTS,
SCHOOLS, eBAY, PAYPAL, etc.)
#4) RECONNECT TO THE INTERNET AFTER ‘DESKTOPDATING MALWARE‘ HAS BEEN REMOVED.

This malware is NOT new. My Google research tells me this malware has been around for about a year. It’s just VERY IMPORTANT that you
DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINK OR BUTTON WITHIN THE EMAIL. JUST DELETE THE EMAIL.