Thursday, March 29, 2007

Beware of IE7 Beta Spam

I was quite impressed with the quality of the image in the email in my Inbox. The subject of the email is "Internet Explorer 7 Downloads" and the sender is shown as admin@microsoft.com. The image is great, very realistic looking. The only problem is that when you mouse over the original image the address is not, of course, a Microsoft address.


If you receive an email like this do NOT click on the image!


  • Microsoft does NOT send beta or other software download links via email.
  • IE7 was just released. There is no beta program.
  • Mousing over the image shows a non-Microsoft address.
I submitted the full header information and URL to appropriate forces, including CastleCops. I see that Alex Eckelberry reported in the SunBeltBLOG that the payload is a trojan and "Antivirus coverage is mediocre."



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