Beware of IE7 Beta Scam

[corkyg]

A scam email is asking users to click on a malicious executable file disguised as a bogus image link to download Internet Explorer 7 beta.

It was ostensibly from Microsoft.com, but good old AVG nailed it right away.

It's the only one that has gotten by my ISP in two years!

 

[xfalconx2]

Why would you click a link about IE7 beta when the full version has been available for a long time now?

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: corkyg
A scam email is asking users to click on a malicious executable file disguised as a bogus image link to download Internet Explorer 7 beta.

It was ostensibly from Microsoft.com, but good old AVG nailed it right away.

It's the only one that has gotten by my ISP in two years!

Your ISP is slackin'. That one's been in circulation for a month now.

Here's a writeup on another crafty one: Trojan.Kardphisher Pretty convincing in appearance, at first glance. They still have slightly-stilted English that gives them away, but they're trying :evil:


And another one: oh sure yeah, protect my infos


Aaaaand another one that I found last night: screenshot :camera:

Typically, the Trojan Horses I find in the wild are detected by less than 1/4 of the 31 antivirus scanners at VirusTotal.com, which is part of the reason I'm such a strident promoter of non-Admin user accounts for a proactive layer of defense, as well as SRP if possible. No signature updates required.

 

[pradeep1]

Originally posted by: xfalconx2
Why would you click a link about IE7 beta when the full version has been available for a long time now?

I got that email and I thought the same thing. I am already using IE7

 

[John]

Of course they were too stupid to think of using IE8 beta.