Malicious E-Cards - An Analysis of Spam

smashr writes "I ran across this article the other day which is a rather clear analysis of a piece of malicious spam the author received. While most of us simply hit the delete key, the author has taken the time to see exactly what is going on when an innocent user clicks on one of these fake e-cards that are going around. From Russian spyware sites to over-writing wmplayer.exe this particular piece of spam is a rather nasty one."

Comments

Re:Frightening

[swordboy]

A large fortune to anyone who creates an anti-spyware/adware package for Windows users who don't know the slightest bit about vulnerabilities like this. I'll pay lots of money for it. Until then, I'm still happy to charge people $50/hr to remove this crap.

Alternatively, create a replacement for IE and Outlook that *look* like IE and Outlook. With this, I'll be able to replace Microsoft products with good (and possibly open-source) products without people bitching that they don't know how to use it.

I still use IE because Mozilla doesn't SHIFT+Click with the same behavior (open in new window) as IE. I don't care if Mozilla is better because old habits are *very* difficult to break. It only takes about a month of screwing up the shift+click thing before I uninstall Mozilla and go back to IE. I won't even talk about that stupid dinosaur splash screen.

Help!