Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Bogus security update

The latest round of spam is a bogus security update. Just for good measure they take down your DNS servers. No doubt, this is intended to cause confusion in the ranks of large institutions. The sample below is just one of many similar spams.

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Attention!

On October 16, 2009 server upgrade will take place. Due to this the system may be offline for approximately half an hour. The changes will concern security, reliability and performance of mail service and the system as a whole. For compatibility of your browsers and mail clients with upgraded server software you should run SSl certificates update procedure. This procedure is quite simple. All you have to do is just to click the link provided, to save the patch file and then to run it from your computer location. That's all.

http://updates.YOURDOMAINNAMEHERE.com.secure.admindatacenter.com/mail/id=741248762-harjaicv@AGAIN.com-patch55129.exe

Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter and sorry for possible inconveniences.

System Administrator

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