Microsoft users are being targeted again by malware via e-mail, scammers\/spammers never give up and for once the e-mail looks fairly legitimate.<\/p>\n
Usually this kind of ‘baitware’ is riddled with terrible grammar and horrible spellings, do make sure you brief the less security aware friends you have about this though just in case.<\/p>\n
Email scams are a common way to spread malware and\/or steal personal information. Some great guidelines to help you protect yourself from such scams are outlined here.<\/a> <\/p>\n
We have recently found out about the latest in an ongoing string of email scams that target Microsoft customers. This particular scam contains the Backdoor:Win32\/Haxdoor trojan as an attachment. We have seen a few emails targeting Microsoft customers that look like the email below:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s not the first time we’ve seen this attack vector used in this way, but most AV software with a recent signature file should catch this e-mail as it comes in.<\/p>\n
It shouldn’t be a big problem for corporates.<\/p>\n
The email is as follows:<\/p>\n
Dear Microsoft Customer,<\/p>\n
Please notice that Microsoft company has recently issued a Security Update
\nfor OS Microsoft Windows. The update applies to the following OS versions:
\nMicrosoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Millenium,
\nMicrosoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista.<\/p>\nPlease notice, that present update applies to high-priority updates
\ncategory. In order to help protect your computer against security
\nthreats and performance problems, we strongly recommend you to
\ninstall this update.<\/p>\nSince public distribution of this Update through the official website
\nhttp:\/\/www.microsoft.com would have result in efficient creation of a
\nmalicious software, we made a decision to issue an experimental private
\nversion of an updatefor all Microsoft Windows OS users.<\/p>\n