 Don't
get infected on Valentine's Day -
14/02/2007 |
One phishing
email - a new variant on an old trick - is spoofed to look like it comes
from services@americangreetings.com, a well known e-card company. Click on
the link, which claims you've been sent a Valentine's card, and a faked-up
copy of that site's homepage tells you that "You don't have the latest
version of Macromedia Flash Player".
Once loaded, only
the sharp-eyed will spot that the URL is actually americanSgreetings.com,
and even if you don't click the link the page tries to download what looks
like a Flash installer - but is actually far too small to be the real
thing. In actual fact it's a Trojan.
If you go back to
the same fake page later (whether you accepted the download or killed it),
it now leads to a real e-card on the real American Greetings site, so you
might think the "Flash install" had fixed the problem.
It's not
the only topical risk around today either. Anti-virus companies, such as
Sophos and CyberSoft, are reporting a big surge in infected email with
Valentine's taglines. The messages have a file attachment, which of course
carries a Trojan or worm, but should be blocked as long as your have
Anti-Virus protection which is up to date.
Source: The Register
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