25 November 2006
Free Porn For Your Most Personal Information
Nothing is free these days and that is certainly true of online porn.
It seems the current form of social engineering is to attract Internet Explorer users to sites offering free pornography. Currently, there is a major spam campaign against unpatched versions of Internet Explorer offering free pornography while actually providing the Psyme-DL Trojan. When users open the link, they are taken to a page that automatically installs the Trojan. Firefox users are asked to switch browsers and are unaffected as are fully patched IE users and users of IE 7.
This is just another reminder of why people should practice safe browsing habits, but despite all the warnings many users will find such an email impossible to resist and go to it anyway, which is exactly what the creators of such social engineering schemes are hoping for.
It seems the current form of social engineering is to attract Internet Explorer users to sites offering free pornography. Currently, there is a major spam campaign against unpatched versions of Internet Explorer offering free pornography while actually providing the Psyme-DL Trojan. When users open the link, they are taken to a page that automatically installs the Trojan. Firefox users are asked to switch browsers and are unaffected as are fully patched IE users and users of IE 7.
This is just another reminder of why people should practice safe browsing habits, but despite all the warnings many users will find such an email impossible to resist and go to it anyway, which is exactly what the creators of such social engineering schemes are hoping for.
Labels: email, safety, spam, trojan
