Spyget > MSNBC Breaking News Removal Guide (Uninstall Instructions)
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[Spyware and Malware Removal Guides] In the SPAM e-mail are links to the story in case you want to read more, but if you actually click on these links you will instead be brought to a hacked site pretending to be MSNBC.com rather than the legitimate MSNBC site. Once at the site you will be presented with a page imitating MSNBC.com, but there will be a prompt stating that your Adobe Flash it out of date and that you need to install a new version in order to see the content on the page.
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[F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog] MSNBC / CNN malware run: For some days we've been spam runs with titles like "CNN Alerts: My Custom Alert" or "CNN Alerts: Breaking news". These are fake news articles that point to a fake news page that will try to download malware to your machine.
[WOT Web of Trust scorecard - Comments] thewebleaders.com by lordpake: /msnonline.html: this site wants you to download and install malware - be it fake Flash update or codec or fake ActiveX update, allegedly so you can watch some video(s).
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[spyware] MSNBC Breaking News Removal Guide (Uninstall Instructions): A rogue anti-spyware program called Antivirus XP 2008 that scans your computer and pretends to find installed malware. It then requires you to purchase the program before it will remove any of the fake infections it has found.
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[When women go wrong] Gwatney shooting: MSNBC, CNN Breaking News Alerts Really Malware. millions of spam messages have been sent inaccurate using the title cnn breaking news and at the present time those same spammers are targeting msnbc replacing the cnn with msnbc and .
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[MX Logic threatblog] Here We Go Again: CNN Spam is now MSNBC Spam: Although nowhere near the peaks that we saw with the CNN outbreak from last week, it also took 3 days for the CNN spam to reach those volumes. So, I would say that at this point since we have only been tracking this new variant for about 12 hours the lower volumes are no indication of what is to come, but just like in movies, the sequel usually isn't as good as the original...
[Spyware Techie] CNN.com Malspam Revolution: msnbc.com Breaking News Message: message contains a URL that leads to a malicious site that has a CNN video report but asks you to download a Flash player in the form of the file adobe_flash.exe. Does this sound familiar?
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