Posted on 04/08/2005 10:48:51 AM PDT by infocats
An e-mail campaign designed to lure people to a bogus Microsoft Web site is making the rounds as part of an attempt to install a Trojan horse, antivirus company Sophos said Friday.
Attackers are sending out fake e-mails that claim to come from Microsoft's Windows Update. People who click on the link in the message are steered to a site that looks like Microsoft's security update site, where they are urged to download fake patches.
But should unsuspecting users download the bogus patches, they will infect their computers with the Troj/DSNX-05 Trojan horse, according to Sophos. That, in turn, will let the attackers remotely take control of the infected PC.
"Microsoft does not issue security warnings this way," said Graham Cluley, Sophos senior technology consultant. "They don't send updates in an HTML format, so don't follow the links in an e-mail. If you want to see if an update is real, you need to go to the real Microsoft Web site and check there."
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Find the fake machine and DOS it.
better yet, find the auther of the trojan and send in a hit squad.
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Nice paperweight :)
Great doorstop. ;)
Great minds!
Doesn't look like a penguin to me.
A fool and his security are soon parted.
Don't be a fool.
:):):)
You can't use it as a doorstop. If you do, what'll we use to hold the window open?
Thanks for the heads up. I have Trojan Guarder but am not entirely happy with it. In the version I have, you have to update manually, the manual update link gives no reference as to what version it is so that you might wind up re-installing the version you already have (no big deal but the link should spell out the revision), and I picked up a backdoor trojan in any event when downloading from a P2P.
Apple is such a farce. The machines are great machines, no doubt, but the company itself is the Betamax of the computing industry. Also, there's nothing you can do on an Apple that you can't do on a AGP/PCI platform for a LOT less money if you know what you're doing.
Microsoft is always being accused of trying to be a monopoly while Apple actually IS trying to be a monopoly.
Granted, Apple has, indeed, monopolized the sneering, elitist, left-wing, anti-corporate, and just plain rude segment of the market.
I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't ceded the French market to Apple.
I might add that it is ironic that Apple only started to make serious money after they decided to focus on toys that play MP3 files and consider getting out of the computer business.
Give it a few years and you may find yourself completely unsupported.
All the rest of us can always find support for open-architecture platforms.
Until hackers and virus writers start targeting Macs....
tds3 works great but uses allot of resources/memory and takes a few minutes to load the definition file. And its a 30 day or so trial.
Have you tried MS' antispyware program? If you run win98, Giant software which was bought by MS has the exact same thing that runs on 98. Its free, I like it.
But I haven't found anything that doesnt leave stuff behind like TDS3.
Huh. You're I think the only one I know of that sees Jobs as I do.
Get a pair of 'em. :)
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