Malignant Email Dept: New Worm Masquerades as IE7 Beta Download

[mandy]

It always pays to be suspicious when unsolicited e-mails arrive, and on Friday new evidence underscored the point: A malicious e-mail purportedly from Microsoft actually serves up a worm dubbed "Grum."

The e-mail, which claims to come from admin@microsoft.com and reads "Internet Explorer 7 Downloads" in the subject line, displays an image that invites users to click on it to download a beta 2 version of Internet Explorer 7.0. Trusting users who click on the image, however, download not the promised software but a file called ie7.0.exe, which is infected by the W32/Grum-A worm.

A worm is a type of computer virus that reproduces by sending copies of itself to other nodes on a network -- in this case, it uses the addresses in users' e-mail address books...

full article: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/56630.html

[rose]

displays an image that invites users to click on it to download a beta 2 version of Internet Explorer 7.0

Who'd fall for that? Everyone knows IE7 doesn't run on Linux.