{"id":62,"date":"2008-09-08T13:04:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T04:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2008-09-08T13:04:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T04:04:44","slug":"beware-of-fake-google-chrome-installer-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/08\/beware-of-fake-google-chrome-installer-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of fake Google Chrome installer emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barely had Google announced its new browser Chrome, that malware senders responded by sending out fake emails claiming to provide an installer for the new software. Here is a German message I received:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From: &#8220;Steffen Neukirch&#8221; &lt;beta-team@google.de&gt;<br \/>\nTo: <em>spamtrap-email-address<\/em><br \/>\nSent: Friday, September 05, 2008 09:26<br \/>\nSubject: [PR] Neuter Webbrowser Chrome erh\u00e4ltlich<\/p>\n<p>Sie ben\u00f6tigen einen JavaScript-f\u00e4higen Browser, um diese Software herunterzuladen. Klicken Sie hier, um Anleitungen zum Aktivieren von JavaScript in Ihrem Browser zu erhalten. <\/p>\n<p>Google Chrome (BETA) f\u00fcr Windows<br \/>\nGoogle Chrome ist ein Browser, durch den die Nutzung des Internets beschleunigt, vereinfacht und sicherer gestaltet werden soll. Dabei bietet der Browser eine hohe Nutzerfreundlichkeit.<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Windows Vista\/XP<\/p>\n<p>Ein Eingabefeld f\u00fcr alles<br \/>\nBei Eingabe von Text in die Adressleiste erhalten Sie Vorschl\u00e4ge zu Such- und Webseiten.<\/p>\n<p>Miniaturansichten Ihrer am h\u00e4ufigsten besuchten Websites<br \/>\nRufen Sie Ihre Lieblingsseiten von jedem neuen Tab aus blitzschnell auf.<\/p>\n<p>Verkn\u00fcpfungen f\u00fcr Ihre Anwendungen<br \/>\nStarten Sie Ihre am h\u00e4ufigsten verwendeten Webanwendungen \u00fcber Desktop-Verkn\u00fcpfungen.<\/p>\n<p>Z\u00f6gern Sie nicht den neuen Webbrower zu testen, im Anhang finden Sie die neuste Version des Chrome<br \/>\neinfach installieren und sofort loslegen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92008 Google &#8211; Startseite &#8211; \u00dcber Google &#8211; Datenschutzbestimmungen &#8211; Hilfe<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I checked the attached 705 KB ChromeSetup.rar file with Kasperky&#8217;s online virus scanner:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scanned file:   ChromeSetup.rar &#8211; Infected<br \/>\nChromeSetup.rar\/ChromeSetup.exe &#8211; infected by Trojan-Dropper.Win32.VB.efh\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do not install software attached to or linked from emails you didn&#8217;t request. The real Google Chrome (Beta) browser is available at http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barely had Google announced its new browser Chrome, that malware senders responded by sending out fake emails claiming to provide an installer for the new software. Here is a German message I received: From: &#8220;Steffen Neukirch&#8221; &lt;beta-team@google.de&gt; To: spamtrap-email-address Sent: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/08\/beware-of-fake-google-chrome-installer-emails\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,14,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malware","category-software","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}