Comments on: Spam email delivers Microsoft Office macro trojan malware https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11655/spam-email-delivers-microsoft-office-macro-trojan-malware/ Straight-talking security advice from the Malware Experts Sat, 01 Jan 2022 15:56:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: Glenn McGrew II https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/11655/spam-email-delivers-microsoft-office-macro-trojan-malware/#comment-367705 Sat, 10 Jan 2015 06:36:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=11655#comment-367705 The final sentence of #1 is wrong: “…sources that you are not familiar with”. Any time you receive a document, it doesn’t matter what the source is – if you didn’t request it and you’re not expecting it, it is suspect. I used to work at an IT company and ignorant employees would spread malware by accident. They’d get infected and a worm would mine their address book. The IT team was very slow to respond and never sent out a warning to all users not to click on those messages, so people would click on what they thought were safe messages because they came from a co-worker, or even a boss.

Given that documents often come through email, and worms use address books, you’re likely to get a malware email from time to time from someone you trust. It could be a picture, a document or a link – you should always contact the sender if you weren’t expecting to receive it. I get them from time to time – most often an attachment or a link – but I don’t trust them.

Sometimes, people even forward batches of photographs on purpose because they’re cool, interesting, cute or whatever, and some of them have embedded malware in them that downloads more malware. You’ll never even know it because these are the ones everyone wants to see! Clever social engineering!

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