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Phoney Microsoft mail causes concern

Phoney Microsoft mail causes concern 04/08/2005 08:56 AM

A phoney email purporting to come from Microsoft is installing Trojan software on computers around the world. The mail was sent out by spammers and asks the reader to install a Microsoft update. It has a link to a realistic looking Microsoft update page but the file installed, named Wupdate-20050401.exe, turns control of the PC over to the spammer. "The email won't be picked up through anti-spyware software because the .exe file does not contain spyware signatures that would be used to identify it as potentially harmful," commented Martino Corbelli from SurfControl, who first detected the email in Australia this morning.




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