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Can you stamp out spambots? No, but you can help

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Michelle Drolet

The headline reads, “FBI warns of new malware targeting bank accounts," but it could just as well say, “More new victims born from opening emails.” From the simple act of opening an email and clicking on an attachment, the victim's username and password to their bank accounts are stolen by a process called keylogging, where the info is presto, logged directly from your very fingers as you type in your credentials. What's scary is that bogus emails can appear to come from someone you know is afalse