Friday, June 19, 2009

This Just In - BBC News

Not incredibly interesting or new, yet still just as dangerous; this morning we're seeing a virus campaign flying through with the subject "BBC News", the body contains a single hyperlink with random fake news headlines mostly containing something about Paris Hilton. Is she still really that interesting? Was she ever? I digress. The link attempts to start a download of evil intent. The file is named bestvideo.avi.exe, and as you might have guessed isn't a video news snippet, but a trojan that's up to no good. It looks like it started late last night, and was being proactively blocked by our filters, so AppRiver friends have no fear! Just remember not to fall victim to these scammers' ploys. If there's a big story in the news, you can rest assured that the spammers and malware authors are going to replicate it in your inbox and the rest of the interwebs. Stay informed, and not afraid.

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