Hey football fans! There’s a new “virus” targeting your computer! Sorry, not you Steelers, Giants and Panthers fans, this “virus” is targeting the other football fans – World Cup fanatics.
As the World Cup tournament for 2010 gets ready to kick of in South Africa, a new computer infection has been released. The malware is part of an attachment sent by email. The email references the World Cup tournament this summer and offers a free tourism guide for the nation of South Africa, the host of this year’s competition. The attachment is a PDF document and uses a security issue in Adobe Reader to infect the victim’s PC. While this infection has not been a big problem in the US, other parts of the world are being hit harder because of their love for the World Cup tournament.
Updates for Adobe Reader have been released to fix the security issue but software that has not been updated is still vulnerable. Make sure you update your applications on a regular basis, update your antivirus software and avoid unexpected attachments.