Malicious program posing as Microsoft

Duis mollis, est non commodo luctus, nisi erat porttitor ligula, eget lacinia odio sem nec elit. Sed posuere consectetur est at lobortis. Vestibulum id ligula porta felis euismod semper. Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla. Aenean lacinia bibendum nulla sed consectetur. Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Sed posuere consectetur est at lobortis. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Duis mollis, est non commodo luctus, nisi erat porttitor ligula, eget lacinia odio sem nec elit. Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Aenean eu leo quam. Pellentesque ornare sem lacinia quam venenatis vestibulum. Curabitur blandit tempus porttitor. Sed posuere consectetur est at lobortis.

Please submit the file that was downloaded to the Malware Submission Website, so our team can review the files and possibly create definitions for the malware. Thanks!

MoxieQA,

  

A good warning for folks to careful what they click on.

  

Most malware is inadvertently installed by users clicking on deceptive ads which appear to be genuine.  The real link address may appear in the bottom status bar and you should always check that.  I saw the link you posted before Tony wisely removed it. It had no reference to Microsoft in the link - dead giveaway!

  

My best advice is: “If in doubt, get away from it”.

  

Also when closing one of these suspicious ads, you should use the "Alt' + "F4" buttons to close the window. Sometimes if you try to hit the "x" to close, another add will pop up or the download may begin.

 

By the way, were you able to remove the problem malware?

<< you should use the "Alt' + "F4" buttons to close the window >>

 

Aha! Someone else who recommends this. I don't know where I picked up the suggestion but it's a very valid one -- so often everything that you see is one image with no separate components despite appearances and so it doesn't matter where you click it tells it to go ahead.

 

It's one reason too, with Internet Explorer, that I check to option to show the Status Bar since that clearly reveals where you are really going to be sent to, regardless of what the text or image shows.

 

There's a Spam "CNN email" message going around at present purporting to list the Top 10 videos in a number of categories of headline topics that will be familiar -- but if you hold your mouse pointer over any of the text links to the different videos the Status Bar shows that they all take you to the same site -- in my case in Germany and the same HTML file (the one my wife received took you to a different site to mine).

 

It's a cunning one since everything except those links are genuine CNN links including to their legal and privacy and contact us pages ..... but CNN does not seem to have an abuse@ address.

Message Edited by huwyngr on 08-07-2008 05:47 PM
1 Like

huwyngr,

 

I would be remiss if I did not admit that I picked up that "Alt + F4" suggestion from one of your earlier posts.

 

I must give credit where credit is due!

 

 

How reassuring that I have one reader anyway -- sometimes one wonders when one scans a thread with 3 or 4 spot on suggestions and the OP still goes on asking questions from just one of us!

 

Honesty compels me to add to my original posting that I understand that in Firefox, unlike IE, the equivalent of the Status Bar is on by default. A mistake to do it otherwise because if you don't see a feature you may never know it is there but if you see a feature and want to get rid of it -- say in this case to maximize readable screen acreage -- you can always ask if it annoys you enough!

huwyngr

 

How do you get that status bar function on? I use IE7


TxT08 wrote:

huwyngr

 

How do you get that status bar function on? I use IE7


 

On the Menu bar at the top -- if you don't see one press the ALT key -- then View and check against the Status Bar on the list of options.

 

For me it is well worth the loss of the width of the bar. Try it out on some incoming emails, especially if you have an phishing ones you have not deleted. But just hold the mouse pointer over the link, don't click!