Fake Windows patch e-mail leads to Trojan attack
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Security experts are warning about an e-mail making the rounds that tells users about a new Microsoft "security update" that turns out to be bogus.
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Accessing the beta version of Yahoo Mail on a PC with Symantec's updated antivirus software incorrectly causes alarm bells to go off.
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Q Some of my buddies' e-mails show up with an unopenable attachment called "winmail.dat." Am I at fault, or are my friends?
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Code that exploits a serious, yet-to-be-patched hole in Microsoft's Web browser has been posted on the Net.
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Joining the ranks of Windows&#39; users who have been victimized by spoofed security alerts, Linux users this weekend received bogus messages directing them to download updates that are in fact Trojan horses, Red Hat announced Saturday.
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Latest regionally-targeted attack hits Japan Trojan-touting miscreants are actively exploiting a flaw in Ichitaro, a word processing package from JustSystems that's widely used in Japan.â¦
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Internet spammers launched a widespread attack on e-mail inboxes this month. But instead of trying to lure users into opening a corrupted attachment, they're concealing a computer virus in a link to an online greeting card.
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An identity-stealing e-mail Trojan horse that disguises itself as the Lycos Europe antispam screensaver is being distributed around the Internet, an antivirus company has warned.
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InfoWorld - A hacker has released attack code that could be used to exploit a critical bug in some versions of the Windows operating system.
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HELSINKI: Internet security experts warned last Tuesday of a new virulent e-mail worm particularly successful in infecting computers as it is disguised as a multilingual electronic Christmas card.
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InfoWorld - With Microsoft&#39;s monthly patch release expected on Tuesday, scammers are sending out fake security bulletins that attempt to install malicious software on victim&#39;s computers.
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Workshop Windows virus cleanup primer
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A group of software engineers with ZERT has issued what it characterizes as an interim patch for the VML exploit, possibly closing the door to a new series of Trojans. In so doing, a new group resurrects some old questions about whether third parties should be trusted to patch Microsoft products.
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Next time an e-card with a jolly message drops into your computer&#39;s inbox, think before you click it open - it could be a virus which will implant itself in your machine and spread before you even realise it.
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Trojan.Mebroot malware is read at startup, then changes the Windows kernel to avoid detection.
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Clicking the fraudulent update could install malicious code on your desktop.
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Malware arrives in an e-mail message, launches denial of service attack.