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DOStradamus
MVM
join:2003-11-04
Santa Rosa, CA
| reply to XknightHawkX
Re: "Fake MP3 Trojan" Detected On "27%" Of PCs
I've seen too many fall for this 1-2 punch:
1. They download this innocuous-looking video, which, I'll name "A Horse on"Britney on A Horse". Wait for it, and with (saliva) glands activated, they attempt to play it, and are grreted with failure after failure, no matter what they do.
2. Going back to where they got the file, they see a line "If you have problems playing this video, make sure that you use the "Bedevere's Rabbit" CoDec, available here......
With blood long having departed his brain, for places "South", he "Goes out and pushes that big wooden rabbit into his castle". As this isn't a scene from that great movie(*), our (now, victim), installs that badboy, and....
-NK
(*) Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Before thae days of VCRs, I actually paid to go see it a dozen or so times in the theatres.... | |
XknightHawkX
join:2003-02-13
Morton, IL
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| reply to DOStradamus
You mean there are people dumb enough to download an exe file to play a media file?
I downloaded a music video once and when I went to play it windows media player it played video saying if you can't see the video file then please visit some site and download this file. I knew not to do that.
If it's a matter of codec the player will say something about not having the codec. At least I'm pretty sure it does. | |
DOStradamus
MVM
join:2003-11-04
Santa Rosa, CA
| When a user tries to play one of the infected media files, he or she is prompted to download a file called PLAY_MP3.exe
VERY Inaccurate. MxAfee mest be wanting to sell useless, 20th-century product.
For starters, opening the file with VLC MEDIA PLAYER, definitely won't infect a computer. Maybe not with Winamp, either, but the clueless who use Windows Media Player, especially when started from file extension association, OTOH, get treated to a demonstration of all of the "Neat Things" that the DRM features there can do, or, merely get to see what Windows thinks is "best" to do when told to open a file that has the wrong extension.
Finally... 27% of WHAT?119,000 computers out of almost 436,000 scanned, an infection rate of 27%.
Deception. Hype. 436,000 is a long way from the "All PCs" the headline was crafted to sound like.
-NK | |
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