Monday, April 11, 2005

Fake Microsoft security Trojan

A new campaign by malicious hackers uses a Web site <A HREF="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=2&u=/pcworld/120379">designed to look like Microsoft's Windows Update page</A> to trick unwitting Internet users into infecting their computers with a Trojan horse remote access program, according to antivirus experts at Sophos. The scam uses e-mail messages that appear to come from Microsoft to get recipients to visit a Web page that uploads the malicious program.

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