YouTube, Phishing, and Viruses

It was only a matter of time until viruses writers and phishers started to exploit social networking sites. Here's a little gem that just landed in my inbox:

Is it somewhat ironic that it features the plane crash from Lost? Here are some of the headers form the email:


Subject: Video em Destaque
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
From: noreply@youtube.org
Cc: noreply@youtube.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
Message-Id: <20061016022608.EB1134B934D@h519.serverid.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:26:08 +0200 (CEST)

The link that the email sends you is: http://peoplesrepublicofcork.com/newsletter/.htacess/processo=1423AvcFd.php which dumps a file processo1423.exe on your machine

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