Malware Disguised as IE7 Update

August 6th, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Email Security, Web Security | Leave a comment »

How ironic - malware distributors are using the vulnerabilities inherent in IE (and other browsers) to distribute malware purporting to be an Internet Explorer update!

The spammers did a few things to make the message appear to be legitimately from Microsoft, spoofing a Microsoft from address, and copy-pasting the MSN text into the bottom. Of course, [...]