Atom 'Smasher' wrote: [...]
the original spam, the page that it requests, and the suspicious "exe"
file:
http://smasher.suspicious.org/tmp/live-virus.tgz
[...]
updatte.exe was tested on: yahoo-mail http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html http://www.dials.ru/english/www_av/ http://www.rav.ro/scan/indexn.php and they all reported that the file poses no threat. i suspect they're wrong.
I've submitted this file to AVERT WebImmune ( https://www.webimmune.net ) and they now detect it as a password phishing Trojan called "pws-polk". I've also sent a sample to newvirus (at) kaspersky.com so they get a chance to update their signatures.
- Gregor