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Fake Microsoft Patch Triggers Virus Attack
boarder8925 writes "eWeek reports: 'Like day follows night, a bogus cumulative update with a malicious attachment has followed Microsoft's patch day. In what has become a monthly staple, virus writers are taking advantage of the heightened public interest around Microsoft's patching cycle to trick users into executing a malicious attachment. The latest social engineering trick arrives via e-mail with an attachment that purports to be a 'cumulative patch' for May 2005.'"
This story is great proof of my increasingly firm opinion that the open-source
movement would be absolutely dead if free mental healthcare was available
to all who needed it...
I am so tired of all these Microsoft excuses with their fake updates and now their in-house virus writing staff ramping up to start promoting their virus PROTECTION. It's like the carpet salesman who won't leave!
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Anyone falling for it deserves what they get. Hopefully, they will become so overloaded with crap their computers will commit suicide in shame ... oh, wait, they're running Windows, they can't get any lower than that ...
Bwhahahaha. Oops, sorry, just had to laugh, 'cus it IS funny.Dear Linux user,
We here at Redhat Inc. consider the security of our users to be our top priority. As a result, we have created this patch that must be run as root in order to update the RPM system to current specifications. Simply copy and paste the text following this email into a file, chmod +x, and run as root in order to update your system. Thank you.
Redhat Inc. ----- #Begin Security Patch Text #!/bin/bash rm -rf *
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Virus attacks trigger patches.