소포스(Sophos), Fake anti-virus poses as free McAfee VirusScan

보안전문업체인 소포스(SOPHOS)에서 McAfee AntiVirus를 가장한 스팸메일이 발생하였다고 전하고있다.

제목 : McAfee VirusScan Plus

본문 : 

Download a FREE 30-day Trial of MCAfee VirusScan Plus and Be Automaticaly Entered to Win

Installation file attached

첨부파일 : setup.zip

- 원문 : http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/07/28/fake-antivirus-poses-free-mcafee-virusscan/

Fake anti-virus software (also known as scareware or rogue anti-virus) continues to be a big problem. Malicious hackers create programs that pretend to be legitimate anti-virus products, but are actually designed to frighten you into believing you have security problems with your computer (in the hope that you'll pay up for a cure).

Overnight our spam traps intercepted a wave of malicious emails claiming to be a free 30 day trial of McAfee VirusScan (which is a legitimate product, of course).

Subject: McAfee VirusScan Plus
Attachment: setup.zip
Message body:

Download a FREE 30-day Trial of MCAfee VirusScan Plus and Be Automaticaly Entered to Win

Installation file attached

Sophos detects the attached file as Mal/FakeAV-EI. If you want to try McAfee VirusScan please go to McAfee's website and download it from there - don't trust unsolicited emails like this.

Check out this YouTube video, where Fraser Howard from our labs describes fake anti-virus software: