Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Rogue downloader overlooks IE users

Why would I update Firefox? I�m using Internet Explorer.

It�s easy to think of the Internet bad guys out there as all-knowing, all-seeing monsters. They aren�t. They screw up too. Here�s a good one. This is something you might get from a link that appears in search engine results as a result of search engine optomization poisoning. If you go to the malicious site with the Firefox browser you'll see this:


 
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But, if you�re using Internet Explorer, you see the same thing!

 
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VIPRE tells you that the site is trying to download Exploit.PDF-JS.Gen (v). We�ve been detecting it for a while now.

 
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Ultimately, it�s trying to download the SecurityTool rogue or other types of malware!

Thanks Patrick.

Tom Kelchner

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