full-disclosure - Beware of 'IBM laptop order' email

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From: api at epost.de (Axel Pettinger)
Subject: Beware of 'IBM laptop order' email

Skip Duckwall wrote:
> 
> Since it's a phishing email, I'm sure the exploit they're referring to 
> is the one that exploits the compiled help files (.chm files), even 
> though it's not exactly new... Although the way the hostile chm files 
> are executed without user intervention has been patched (the MS-ITS
> vulnerability in MS04-013 I believe...)
> 
> This type of phishing scam isn't really all that new and you can find 
> all sorts of writeups using google.
<snip>
> 
> just my guess....

Good guess ...
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=1085148506.86377.0%40despina.uk.clara.net

Regards,
Axel Pettinger