Don’t fall for a fake virus outbreak warning


F-Secure have received several reports of a mass mailing that’s going around. The messages have been spoofed to look like they are from update@microsoft.com and arrive with title “Warning! New Virus On The Internet! Update Now!”.
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The link in the mail goes to http://update.microsoft.go.ro and downloads an IRC backdoor. Administrators might want to filter web traffic to this site.
Source F-secure
Posted in MS News, Security | 1 Comment »
August 2nd, 2006 at 8:21 am
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