Beware! Trojan virus on prowl

An extract article from Economic Times

BE CAREFUL when you find any Windows update suggestion on your system. This may be the attack of the Trojan virus which would result in the crashing of your system. Department of information technology (DIT) has observed that malicious files are being propagated through fraudulent websites pretending to be providing updates to Microsoft Windows. Your computer may come into attack when you click on the links provided in some spam email which may look identical to some of your contacts. The malicious link directs users to a webpage asking them to click upon ‘urgent install’ button. As soon as one presses the button the system comes into attack. The attack may lead into siphoning of information apart from letting your computer crash. The interesting thing is that the word ‘install’ in the link has been mis-spelled as ‘intall’ making it easier to identify.

“As the virus is affecting Windows users and is targetted towards the Microsoft corporation we have advised the users to adhere to the official guidelines of Microsoft to avoid any difficult situation,” an official of the DIT said. An executable file named WindowsUpdate Agent30-x86-x64.exe has been identified as the route to the virus. This executable file is malware named as Trojan-Dropper: Similar attacks have been tracked via Orkut, facebook and other sites.