Jim Plumb

This lovely fake email from “Microsoft Windows Computer Safety Division” wants to help me with my Conficker.B virus with a free virus scanner they’ve so thoughtfully attached to the email. Of course, what they’ve attached is a program to infect my computer with aforesaid Conficker.B or something worse like a rootkit. Unfortunately, some people will go, “Ooooh, something free from Microsoft!” and run the program and get infected.

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Subject:  Conflicker.B Infection Alert

Dear Microsoft Customer,

Starting 12/11/2009 the ‘Conficker’ worm began infecting Microsoft customers unusually rapidly. Microsoft has been advised by your Internet provider that your network is infected.

To counteract further spread we advise removing the infection using an antispyware program. We are supplying all effected Windows Users with a free system scan in order to clean any files infected by the virus.

Please install attached file to start the scan. The process takes under a minute and will prevent your files from being compromised. We appreciate your prompt cooperation.

Regards,
Microsoft Windows Agent #2 (Hollis)
Microsoft Windows Computer Safety Division

Attachments: open.zip

Have you received an email from the so-called Internet Service Provider Consorcium threatening to suspend you for illegal activities? Well, you can rest assured it’s a fake email. First of all, if they were who they said they were it would be Consortium not Consorcium. Any group that can’t spell its own name right has got to be bogus. This email has an attachment (report.zip/report.exe) that Malwarebytes says contains a Trojan. Here’s the text of the email:

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Subject: Your internet access is going to get suspended

Your internet access is going to get suspended

The Internet Service Provider Consorcium was made to protect the rights of software authors, artists.
We conduct regular wiretapping on our networks, to monitor criminal acts.

We are aware of your illegal activities on the internet wich were originating from

You can check the report of your activities in the past 6 month that we have attached. We strongly advise you to stop your activities regarding the illegal downloading of copyrighted material of your internet access will be suspended.

Sincerely
ICS Monitoring Team