Fake IE 7 Update Spam Installs Malware

[Humpty]

Another round of fake ?authority? email has been launched, this time it is a bogus Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) update spam. Here is a current version of the email (it will probably change a bit soon):

 

From: admin@microsoft.com

 

Subject: Internet Explorer 7

 

Message: You are receiving this e-mail because you subscribed to MSN Featured Offers. Microsoft respects your privacy. If you do not wish to receive this MSN Featured Offers e-mail, please click the ?Unsubscribe? link below. This will not unsubscribe you from e-mail communications from third-party advertisers that may appear in MSN Feature Offers. This shall not constitute an offer by MSN. MSN shall not be responsible or liable for the advertisers? content nor any of the goods or service advertised. Prices and item availability subject to change without notice.

 

File name in attachment: update.exe

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[hazelnut]

Oh dear, I bet some poor user will believe it Humpty.

[Corona]

The important thing is, we survived.

[DennisD]

I could spit when I think of all the crap shipped with pc's, instead of something really useful and without cost, like links to sites like ours, and the hundreds of other places where users could get priceless advice on starting their Internet experience just by reading the posts.

 

These emails must fool thousands of people every day.