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I'd Laugh if the following wasn't so damned sad

Posted by tracyanne on · 2 comments
ZDNet; By Ryan Naraine, Dancho Danchev & Adam O'Donnell 		Mail this story
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Known as Kardphisher and “in the wild” since April, 2007, last week the malware author of this trojan horse mimicking the Windows XP activation interface while collecting the credit card details the end user has submitted, has made significant changes to visual interface and usability of the trojan, consequently improving its authenticity. Guess what happens when a gullible end user falls victim into this social engineering attack?

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tracyanne Story submitter ·
Quoting:Every so often, once every six weeks, my Asus Z92F crashes absolutely and needs a full XP install and consequent activation.


This is apparently the reason why this bloke won't be fooled by the trojan. Which leads me to ask "Why are you still using such a shoddy product at all?"
moopst ·
Watch the malware authors fix the issue on the Asus hardware so that it will be able to run unnoticed.

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