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Trojan disguise as 'Microsoft security update'
By siliconindia
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Saturday, 18 October 2008, 01:48 IST
New Delhi: Computer users are likely to fall prey to an infectious Trojan horse as it disguises as a Microsoft security update. Hackers have been sending security update e-mails to various computer users' hours before the genuine update dispatch time on Tuesday.
The security firm Sophos confirmed that the e-mails with the subject line 'Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows' claimed to have come from Steve Lipner at securityassurance@microsoft.com
The e-mail asserts the innocent users that the attached file is a high-priority update and needs to be installed by users of various versions of Microsoft Windows. However downloading the attached file will infect Windows computer users with the Mal/EncPk-CZ Trojan horse, and could give hackers control over the PC. The file attached to the file is named KBxxxxxx.exe (where 'xxxxxx' is a randomly generated number) in order to disguise itself as a knowledge-base file.