- A McAfee report shows that a number of MP3 files are infected with Trojan horses
Lots of users have already realized, over the past years, how skillful and dangerous a hacker can prove to be. It seems that almost anything you do on the web can infect your personal computer. Yesterday, security
vendor McAfee has reported that a large number of fake MP3 files are spread on peer-to-peer networks. The announcement came to help users realize that they can get their PCs infected by just downloading a simple MP3 file.
After downloading the media file, which can be of either MP3 or MPG form, when users try to play it, they will be prompted to download a file dubbed "PLAY_MP3.exe". Victims should realize that the downloaded "music" or "video" file is actually fake and that no media file would be rendered.
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