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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Death of Michael Jackson inspires spammers and malware distributors

admin 27/06/2009 27/06/2009Spam, Viruses Malware, Michael Jackson, trojans, virus 2

Spammers and malware distributors are trying to take advantage of the death of Michael Jackson by sending out email campaigns with subject and/or body related to Michael Jackson while malware distributors try to infect computers…

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Postcard greetings leads to site that hosts malware

admin 14/06/2009 14/06/2009Viruses Malware, trojan, virus 0

MX Lab intercepted a few samples a new postcard greeting email with the subject “You received a new greeting!!”. The body of the email: You have just received a postcard Greeting from someone who cares…

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Set up notification from The Bat

admin 12/06/2009 12/06/2009Viruses Malware, trojan, virus 0

Emails with the subject “TheBat Setup Notification” or “Outlook Express Setup Notification” have malware attached in the form of a zip file named client_update.zip. The malware is the extracted file client_update.exe and is the trojan…

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Important Microsoft Security Update by email is malware

admin 10/06/2009 10/06/2009Viruses Conflicker worm, Malware, trojan, virus, worm 0

We all know by now, I do hope so, that Microsoft distributes it’s updates throught their automated updated feature inside the Windows OS or by the Windows Update web site available in the Start menu.…

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Phishing PayPal email includes web form

admin 03/06/2009 03/06/2009Phishing paypal, scam 1

One of the latest phishing emails with the subject “PayPal Forma ID PP697” caught our attention because of the fact that it included a complete HTML form inside the email. The phishing is regarding a…

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World Business Guide is using misleading marketing trick

admin 03/06/2009 03/06/2009Various directory, scam, World Business Guide

Today, MX Lab received an email regarding the “World BusinessGuide” directory. At first there seems nothing wrong with the mailing but when looking further there are some points that need your attention. The messages is…

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