0 0|0|Heads Up On The Following, Please - New malware detects browser, shows fake malware warning page|Newman|themole61@gmail.com|21:00:35|09/02/2010|
Posted on Sep-02-10 at 09:00 PM (Eastern) by 70.119.11.224

Microsoft is warning about a new piece of malware, Rogue:MSIL/Zeven, that auto-detects a user's browser and then imitates the relevant malware warning pages from Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome. The fake warning pages are very similar to the real thing; you have to look closely to realize they aren't the real thing. The ploy is a basic social engineering scheme, but in this case the malware authors are relying on the user's trust in their browser, a tactic that hasn't been seen before.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/09/new-malware-detects-browser-shows-fake-malware-warning-page.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss


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