Seen on MySpace — very realistic fake update popup

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This thing is quite realistic. And if you click “Download”, you get an offer to install a nasty little Trojan (Sunbelt Sandbox report here).

The trojan, “updateKB890830.exe”, downloads from a site that looks like a Microsoft url, so it’s all quite realistic to the user.

This was reported to MySpace by a number of individuals and it’s gone now (incidentally, the MySpace abuse team reacts quite well to submissions at abuse(at)myspace.com).

Alex Eckelberry
(Hat tip to Randall Mueller for finding this one)

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