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Spoofed Symantec Email Disables Anti-virus Updates
Chris Crum
Staff Writer
2006-04-20
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Symantec has been spoofed in the form of a high risk malicious email which looks like a Symantec Virus advisory, but actually disables anti-virus updates.
The email contained a "From" address that said it was from Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus division. The message said that the user's computer was infected with a virus called w32.aplore@mm.
The user was then directed to a link that was supposed to dispose of the infection, but instead downloaded an executable file that disabled updates.
The malicious file was located on a free hosting service but the Web site mirrored a Symantec update site.
The spoof was discovered not by Symantec itself, but by security company SurfControl. If anything good came of this, it was publicity for them.
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Chris Crum is a staff writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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