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Fake Google search page reported by Trend

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
16 years ago3,287 views

Trend Micro's Malware Blog has information about fake Google front page as part of dirty job of new malware.
More details and interesting screenshots at
http://blog.trendmicro.com/fake-google-web-page-and-an-im-worm/

[Typo in title fixed as requested – Tony]

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

There is one question the blog post doesn't give an answer:
What the browser status bar says when you are clicking a malicious links "About Google" etc., it shows the real address, I believe, and due to Hosts.sam change these clicks go to 64.xx.xx.75home.exe (or zin.exe)

The screenshot shows the IP address in the status bar, but where is the mouse symbol in the picture?

Thanks for the typo fix

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

The cursor is not shown in Screenshots.

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Yes, there is no mouse pointer, i.e. cursor. It the authors of this malware are wise (but we don't want this to happen) the browser shows real address, no IP address.

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