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Miscreants have created a Trojan that poses as a Google Chrome extension. Spammed messages attempt to dupe prospective marks into trying an add-on that "helps you better organise your documents received in your email". Interested parties are pointed towards a counterfeit Google Chrome Extensions page, which offers a malware …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Say what?

    Problem originates in a dodgy url in a dodgy email? Hard to have much sympathy for victims, then.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Trojan poses as Google Chrome extension

    on Windows as expected. That is in case you might ask.

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  3. Robert Carnegie Silver badge

    Do I need new glasses or new assumptions?

    I looked at where you said "Miscreants" had done this and I thought it said "Microsoft".

    You know, the publishers of Miscreants Windugh, Miscreants Awfullest, and other software products comparable to Cushelle toilet paper. Used.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    .EXE?

    I think you will find that's a Windows virus, not a Chrome one

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  5. Al fazed
    FAIL

    Durr !

    Eponymous Coward,

    Do you think that your average Chrome User will give a fuck which OS they are using ?

    Or which programming school is responsible for letting them get their device pwned ?

    It would appear that you Linii creeps still have a great deal to learn too.

    ALF

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  6. mhenriday

    Given that, according to StatCounter, the Chrome/Chromium browser

    now enjoys a worldwide market share of about 9 % (http://preview.tinyurl.com/2b5to5k ), it's hardly surprising that it's being targetted. Nor is it particularly surprising that it's being targetted on the least secure of the major operating systems....

    Henri

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