Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Virus alert: IKEA's New Planning Software

I noticed an increase in the number of emails with the subject IKEA's New Planning Software.  The email contains the following offer:

IKEA has a Fantastic new FREE tool for home decorating. Introducing our Home Planner software which allows you to plan your home in a 3D environment.  Simply follow the instructions in the attachment and start planning your dream home today.

Also attached is a zip file with the file name ikea.zip and this file contains the executable file ikea.exe.

Using OzEfilter we can see we have received emails with this subject from China, the USA and now Australia. OzEfilter enables us to delete these emails at the mail server, safely away from our computer before we receive them into our computer. The antivirus software did not detect the harmful attachment. We have found over the last few months this type of email to be an issue with most of the antivirus software packages available on the market today.

The attachment has been submitted to the antivirus company we are our clients use, so our clients will soon be protected.

We would advise to immediately delete this email should you receive it.

- Kelvin Eldridge

PS. We use OzEfilter and CA antivirus to protect our computers. We've found no antivirus software to protect 100%. This combination, plus common sense, offers us an excellent level of protection. The online service for submitting suspicious attachments, can be found in MyAnswers solution 1890.

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2 comments:

  1. The file ikea.exe has now been confirmed as malware. An update to the antivirus software is not yet available.

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  2. CA antivirus has now been updated and detects the IKEA malware.

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