Fake BSOD – Blue Screen of Death

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It infects Windows machines via fake codec and fake Flash Player update packages planted on malicious Web sites.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3912&tag=nl.e550

I’ve been preaching about this for some time now – one of the worst things about sites such as MySpace is when users are prompted to download and install something to watch a video. It happens far too often-and not always through MySpace.

Today I had a friend and customer bring a laptop with this exact symptom. Whether you use MySpace or not, you need to be careful about clicking. Remember that your anti-virus does not stop 99% of these types of malware.

— Post From My iPhone