It always pays to be suspicious when unsolicited e-mails arrive, and on Friday new evidence underscored the point: A malicious e-mail purportedly from Microsoft actually serves up a worm dubbed “Grum.” The e-mail, which claims to come from [email protected] and reads “Internet Explorer 7 Downloads” in the subject line, displays an image that invites users to click on it to download a beta 2 version of Internet Explorer 7.0. Trusting users who click on the image, however, download a file called ie7.0.exe, which is infected by the W32/Grum-A worm.
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New Worm Masquerades as IE7 Beta Download
Posted by: Katherine Noyes March 30, 2007 01:26 PMIt always pays to be suspicious when unsolicited e-mails arrive, and on Friday new evidence underscored the point: A malicious e-mail purportedly from Microsoft actually serves up a worm dubbed “Grum.” The e-mail, which claims to come from [email protected] and reads “Internet Explorer 7 Downloads” in the subject line, displays an image that invites users to click on it to download a beta 2 version of Internet Explorer 7.0. Trusting users who click on the image, however, download a file called ie7.0.exe, which is infected by the W32/Grum-A worm.