Tiger Woods malware detected
The car accident involving golfer Tiger Woods has led to Google trends being dominated by the event. Hon Lau, senior security response manager at Symantec, claimed that from an IT security point of view, this is just another fruit ripe for the picking as far as malware writers are concerned.
“So it comes as no surprise that the creators of rogue anti-virus or misleading application software have already jumped on the bandwagon and attempted to poison web search engine results to take advantage of this spike in web search activity,” said Lau.
Symantec reported that search engine results are redirecting to malicious domains that go through the usual fake scanning activity, before pointing out a whole host of 'serious errors' and 'threats' that need to be cleaned from your computer. Files on offer on this occasion may be setup_build6_195.exe (Download.MisleadApp) or install [RANDOM NUMBER].exe (Detected as Downloader or Trojan.FakeAV).
