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Malicious Trojan disguised as Google Toolbar E-mail
by Stan Beer   
Thursday, 20 July 2006
UK-based Internet security firm SurfControl has detected a malicious threat disguised as a link to the widely used Google Toolbar. 

Beginning late yesterday, an email began circulating that claimed to be from Google and offered information on what appears to be the latest version of the Google Toolbar. Clicking the link in the email takes users to a fake Google Toolbar Web site, which looks exactly like the real site, and provides users with the option to download the toolbar for their browser.

The file that is downloaded, however, is actually a Trojan that can turn users’ machines into spam zombies. 

SurfControl has added malcode protection for this attack into databases for all products and advises users to update any anti-virus software. {moscomment}
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