W32/Winpatch.PSW Trojan

 Information about the W32/Winpatch.PSW Trojan:

W32/Winpatch.PSW is a trojan. The trojan will infect Windows system and was spammed.

The 'From' address of the infected email will be patch@microsoft.com.

The subject of the infected mail will be Microsoft WinLogon Service - Vulnerability Issue.

The body of the infected mail will be;

A new vulnerability has been discovered in the Microsoft WinLogon Service , that would allow an attacker to gain access to an unpached computer.

Since your email is part of our private mail lists and your have succesfully registered your Microsoft Windows , you can download the patch to fix this vulnerability before others do.

Please click the link below to download the patch and protect your computer against WinLogon attacks :

http://www.microsoft.com/patches-win-logon-critical/winlogon_patchV1.12.exe

You are free to share this with all your friends and relatives that are using Microsoft Windows Operating System

Thank you

Microsoft Coorp.

On clicking the link mentioned in the email it tries to download and execute a file from the following link;

http://www.sub[removed]/winlogon_patchV1.12.exe

This trojan first appeared on May 31st, 2006.

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