Two spam e-mail messages floating around the Internet contain a malicious virus that forces you to wipe your hard drive clean to get rid of the infection, warns the Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland.
One e-mail purports to be from UPS, telling the recipient that a shipment could not be delivered. The reader is asked to open an attachment to gain access to an invoice waybill in order to pick up the shipment, the BBB says. The attachment contains the damaging virus.
The second e-mail, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, directs the recipient to click on a link to read an article about the FBI vs. Facebook. Once the user clicks on the link, malicious software is downloaded to the Internet connected device and causes it to become infected with the Storm Worm botnet. Botnets typically help facilitate criminal activity such as spam e-mail, identity theft, denial of service attacks and spreading malware to other machines on the Internet.
