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Symantec reported recently on a Trojan horse that mimics the Microsoft Windows activation interface. Called Trojan.Kardphisher, it doesn’t do most of the technical things that Trojans usually do: It’s purely a social-engineering attack, aimed at stealing credit card information.

In a sense, it’s a standalone phishing program.

Once you reboot, Kardphisher asks you to reactivate your copy of Windows, citing piracy issues and telling you that another user has activated your copy. Though it assures you that you will not actually be charged, it asks for credit card information.

If you don’t enter the credit card information, Kardphisher shuts down the PC. The Trojan also disables the Windows Task Manager, which makes it more difficult to shut the malware down.
Looks Pretty Official.

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What you are about to read is quite disturbing and people actually do this, causing other computer users to loose data, ruin systems and even businesses.

Computer users who are out to ruin computer systems could send you an E-mail with the subject of “your Online Life is Not Private”.

So you open up the E-mail and it reads:
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“Do you trade files online? Then they will come after you. Search the news for RIAA and see what they are doing to people like you. Tor eliminates the trail that leads to you. Use this software to protect your privacy and your right to use the net. Download Tor [URL removed]” we removed the link for security (this is real)The link lead to a malware infested version of the file sharing app Tor, do not follow the link or download any files from that site!
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