Fake Firefox update includes password-stealing trojan

santer_2

Whatever next?

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Fake-Firefox-update-includes-password-stealing-trojan-1319477.html


When someone searches for OpenOffice, Firefox, VLC or any other popular open source package on the internet, are they necessarily going to get the genuine article?

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/The-FOSS-fakery-problem-1287613.html

debitcardmayhem

Of course but the first link talks about spam/false emails whereas on the second they talk about Fossy and point you at this www.videolan.org

Which on their site points to www.videolan.org which is the true site for videolan (VLC) or at least it does as I write , however don't click on the link I have posted because unless you take note , and your browser is set to show it in the status bar you will end up where ?
Try it and see ......

The whatever next part is make sure that you(the reader of santer's post) is aware of what can happen

RussJK

So basically just an trojan sent via a link in email. This is a case where common sense can still protect someone from getting an infection.

It'd be more worrisome if it was a drive by download, like fake Adobe Flash updates.