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Capt_Caveman 10-25-2004 12:04 AM

Fake Redhat Security Update Email
 
It's been reported that a fake email claiming to be from Redhat has been circulating. The fake message urges Redhat and Fedora users to download and apply a security update from fedora-redhat. Note that the real fedora site is located at http://fedora.redhat.com. The "upgrade" is actually a tarred binary that installs a trojan on the system.

Note from redhat regarding this issue:
http://www.redhat.com/security/

jev-bird 10-26-2004 12:22 AM

Sounds like a Windows technique nonetheless. The most annoying part about running what is now the proprietary redhat were thoose update email notifications and I never used thoose as a basis to update my system.

Between that method and the redhat update agent all I had to do was figure out which one was going in the recycle bin first.


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