A friend of mine on one of the popular social networks advised me of a malicious site that is prompting users to download the Adobe Flash Plug-in. This fake plug-in will fool many people, because it looks and interacts just like the real Adobe Player prompts. First, it serves up a professionally designed spicy website that prompts the user that they’re missing the latest Adobe Player Plug-in.
The website is adult-video-club.co.cc/co.php?v=Sex. Instead of updating the Adobe Player from Adobe, the user is actually downloading the update from flash-video.co.tv/om/ms.php. The file is infected with Malware Zheng/Heur. What’s scary about this malicious file is that Microsoft Security Essentials thinks it’s clean.
The website that’s hosting this Malware was just created. The only information I obtained is that the host is in Italy and the IP is (94.23.68.138).
If you are prompted to update Adobe Flash Player, please go to the source at http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=BUIGP
Will do just that..thank you.
Andrew,
This one will bite many people as it’s hard to catch.
thanks alot.nice info
I agree! I wish Adobe would explain why Adobe Reader 9 requires 200+ MB on a hard drive, for merely a PDF reader???
I agree! I wish Adobe would explain why Adobe Reader 9 requires 200+ MB on a hard drive, for merely a PDF reader??? Article Pedia
This type of attack is easy for people to fall victim to, especially as it mirrors a legitimate site.
Although checking via the valid url of a site is the right way to avoid attack, users should also be aware of any auto-updater for other software.
Invalid update messages can come not just from malicious websites, but also from preexisting malware on your system.
Should always check with the software providers own valid website before updating.
Thanks for informing us…It will helpful for everyone.We will taking care from it.
And watch out for large revision changes as well, the web site I was at initiated an authentic looking adobe update box to ( correct an error ) by downloadng ” Adobe Player 11 ” !
Almost bought it to!……except I had recently updated to version 9 and thought, himmm that’s a fairly large revision jump….upon checking adobe’s site only version 10.1 beta was available at this writing…
Generally speaking, I have enough PC issues these days ( as well as in me life! )
….as Grant wrote…….doesn’t hurt to take a moment and check with the SW manufacturer….