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Malicious 'update' doing the rounds via email
Quick warning, courtesy of CIO.com, of an email claiming to have an update from Microsoft, but which is actually a Trojan, Win32/Haxdoor to be precise.
The email says that the attached program (that should get alarm bells ringing) is an "experimental private version of an update for Microsoft Windows OS users" (by now those bells should be so loud the neighbours are complaining).
The clever aspect of the attack is that today is Patch Tuesday, when Microsoft releases the latest crop of updates but please don't be fooled. Only install updates via Windows Update, not email.
Good post
I've just had a terrible time getting rid of a really bad virus it took over the registry completely it stopped me from instaling any anti-virus programs and it just rubbished the Norton antivirus, spybot and windows defender that I had already installed Its known as Antivirus Pro 2009
posted-by Wayne | December 2, 2008 10:17 PM
Those trojan backdoor viruses are very tough to deal with. They pretend to be official Microsoft information but are far from it!
bring back deleted files
posted-by JDans | March 2, 2009 8:29 PM