Recipients can also find it difficult to identify specific email messages containing malware since these messages reflect a huge amount of effort taken by the malicious actor in order to make the email message appear as if it has been sent from a known and trusted sender. Some of them can easily be spotted as malicious based on their subject lines that just don’t make any sense, suspicious sender or several other header fields and body content. These viruses can be packaged and presented in different ways. An email virus comprises of malicious code that is distributed in email messages, and this code can be activated when a user opens an email attachment, clicks on a link in an email message, or interacts in a totally different way with the infected email message.Įmail viruses are mostly spread by causing the malicious message or attachment to be sent to everyone in the victim's address book.
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