A couple of weekends ago, I was doing exactly what most computer users do in their free time. I was sitting front of the computer, visiting sites that I have no business with. One site led to another and I eventually started looking for some old friends I had lost contact with over the years. One such search led me to Spoke.com, a business networking site. Using the Spoke search box soon had me believing that my computer might be infected and I would soon need to scan it for malicious programs. OK, I didn't really believe it because I was laughing a bit too much, trying to understand what the "warning" was trying to tell me:
If you've recently received an email with an attachment or link,asking you to install a patch or an update from Microsoft, pleasebeware as this is in all probability a hoax and could transfer controlof your computer to some unknown entity anywhere in the world.
Recently, we received samples of emails which prompted users toinstall patches for Windows, via fake Security Bulletins. The patcheswere either linked from the email or attached to the mail itself.Symantec products detect the linked file as Trojan.Dropper.
