If you've received an email with a link to what's promoted as a dancing Halloween skeleton - don't download it. The link is actually a malicious piece of software, usually labeled something like halloween.exe that will compromise your computer and turn it into a zombie that's part of the criminal computer network controlled by the so-called Storm gang.

So far today, I've tracked this software to ISP's all over the world, including Comporium of Rock Hill, South Carolina, the TPL network in Poland, Bezeq International in Israel, Charter Communications in the US, etc.

If you get an email from someone you've never heard of pointing to a link that looks like this - http://222.256.300.104/ - don't click on it. (And that isn't a real Internet address - but it's formatted similarly to those in the malicious emails for demonstration purposes.)

Download the fake treat, and you could find that any and all information you have on or type into your computer is being sent behind the scenes to criminals - information like online banking passwords, email addresses of family and friends, personal documents and so on.

Cheers,
George
justFRED.ca