Sunday, December 21, 2008

Your Computer Is Under Investigation


A mildly amusing sample came in today. The sample itself is a very simple Visual Basic application. When executed, the unlucky user is shown this message:



Clicking the 'Warning' button will play an alarm sound over the computer's speakers. Clicking 'FBI' will close the form.The sample also launched the default browser and opened the page www.fbi.gov - the legitimate FBI website. Other than that, it seems to have no malicious intent and may have been a prank. Seems rather old-fashioned, considering today's more monetized threat landscape.

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