08/22/2008

YouTube videos are safe, but not this malware spam! Here is the latest way to get people to click on a link. It looks like a YouTube video. Those are "safe", so we can click on this right! Wrong. Look at the URL the link goes to, below. It loads an EXE malware file. It is pretty convincing. The picture below is a snapshot. The actual email has an animated GIF and is very realistic. I think a lot of people will click on it as it look harmless.




Allison spotted this in her Lotus Notes Junk Mail folder and reported this to me yesterday. SpamSentinel caught it, but if someone fishes it out of the quarantine area, it could infect their PC and create one more zombie computer!