Fake Security Updates Plague MS
A little bit of a warning for those in the habit of keeping up with Microsoft security updates (and we all should be, shouldn't we, boys and girls?)
According to this C|Net story, a fake Microsoft update web site and coordinated e-mail campaign is luring people to install a Trojan horse virus.
Going around right now are a series of fake e-mails that look like they come from MS Windows Update web site. The fake patches that come from this download infect computers with the Troj/DSNX-05 Trojan horse, according to Sophos. That, in turn, will let the attackers to remotely take control of the infected PC.
As C|Net points out: “Microsoft does not issue security warnings this way. 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.”
According to this C|Net story, a fake Microsoft update web site and coordinated e-mail campaign is luring people to install a Trojan horse virus.
Going around right now are a series of fake e-mails that look like they come from MS Windows Update web site. The fake patches that come from this download infect computers with the Troj/DSNX-05 Trojan horse, according to Sophos. That, in turn, will let the attackers to remotely take control of the infected PC.
As C|Net points out: “Microsoft does not issue security warnings this way. 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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