scoutt
12-16-2005, 04:18 PM
(14 December 2005)
A new email attack masquerades as a warning and security update from
McAfee for Kongo31.XRW, a fictitious virus. McAfee does not send out
virus alerts in this way. The email links to a phony McAfee web site;
the download claiming to be to be the patch is actually
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Hanlo.h.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/print.htm?TYPE=story&AT=39227707-2000061744t-10000005c
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2147531/trojan-circulates-fake-mcafee
A new email attack masquerades as a warning and security update from
McAfee for Kongo31.XRW, a fictitious virus. McAfee does not send out
virus alerts in this way. The email links to a phony McAfee web site;
the download claiming to be to be the patch is actually
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Hanlo.h.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/print.htm?TYPE=story&AT=39227707-2000061744t-10000005c
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2147531/trojan-circulates-fake-mcafee