We really hope you didn’t click on that link that said there was a critical update for Outlook. If so, then quickly scan your machine and don’t do anything that involves any important information.
Yesterday, Trend Micro warned that there’s a new outbreak of spam that claims to be a critical update for Outlook. We had a few of the messages trapped in our spam filter and the text actually reads “This update is critical and provides you with the latest version of Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express and offers the highest levels of stability and security.” The message is trying to infect your machine with the ZBot Trojan, which is a notorious information thief. The ZBot Trojan receives commands from the botnet master and targets sites like Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Bank of America and Wachovia, among others. If a user visits any of the targeted sites, the Trojan will begin logging all of the keystrokes to obtain logon credentials along with any other personal information.
This is one time that you don’t want to install the latest and greatest version, because this one is an imposter.
- John and Mike
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