Phishing attacks have been using personal details, including home addresses, for at least a decade. Maktub Locker is new, but the ways it can infect you date to the days of AOL email addresses. There are overwhelming odds that you would have to be running Windows for the malware to pose any sort of threat to you. The malware works only if youre fool enough to break all the rules I listed above. If someone has a good reason to be sending you, say, a docx file, go ahead and open it.”]
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