Fake Windows update fools
Found on The Inquirer on Sunday, 10 April 2005
The software giant Microsoft is warning about an email scam which encourages users to download a Trojan horse in the mistaken belief that they are updating their computers with a security patch.
Spinsters, from the Vole Hill in Redmond, said that the 'update' appears as a spam email. It points people to a bogus website that claims to host critical security updates. Of course anyone downloading from the site gets infected with the DSNX-05 trojan.
According to the BBC, media friendly anti-virus firm Sophos spotted the e-mail which uses subject lines saying "Urgent Windows Update" or "Important Windows Update".
That's nothing new at all... if MS just noticed those emails, then they probably never read newsgroups. I've seen those in many groups, with topics like above or eg. "apply this corrective patch"