The computer worm entices victims with discounts at “McDonald’s” restaurants
Posted: December 19th, 2008 | Tags: Malware, Virus, Worm |PandaLabs warns about mass dispatch of electronic letters with the harmful program P2PShared.U, disguised under messages from a network of restaurants of a fast food “McDonalds”.
In heading of the infected letters it is said that “McDonald’s” wishes addressees of happy Christmas. The letter text looks as follows: “McDonald’s” is glad to present you the last menu with huge discounts. Simply print the coupon from this message and go to the nearest McDonald’s for FREE gifts and FANTASTIC discounts ». Messages look so as if start with domain Mcdonalds.
The users, fallen for the bait malefactors and agreed to follow to instructions in the letter, instead of the discount in McDonald’s receive harmful program P2PShared.U Having got on the computer of a victim, this worm starts to dispatch the copies on the found e-mail addresses. Besides, P2PShared.U copies itself in the folders used by file exchange programs, under the names related to security applications, multimedia tools and so on. Thus, the user, tried to download any of these applications, gets infected also.
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