IS visual and the use of pornography as a vehicle of propagation and infection II

As Kevin Mitnik once said "People aren't prepared for the deception through technology." Perhaps, this calculation agree on which many of us who specialize in security field, is part of the answer to why the effectiveness of this complex technical thing?

Basically, it's again the kind of social engineering drawing visual images to spread pornographic malware.

The mode of operation, as always, is the image of the video course, but when you click to display an alert window appears indicating the lack of a codec, running and trying to spread malware.

• codec.exe 32/40 (80%) - (MD5: 2b128610c3c32bc6d1da4bbf97901768)

In this case, the strategy is part of the campaign to spread a known scareware called WinPC Antivirus whose detection rate is 80%.

This shows the "universal" because the technique does not respond to a specific type of malware is a vector and highly exploited to trick users and spread through the threat of a widespread demand in Internet issues, as is the pornography.

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# Jorge Mieres