Malware attack blasted out in “Important Changes to Microsoft Services agreement” email

If you received an email, apparently from Microsoft, claiming to be about “Important Changes to Microsoft Services Agreement” would you trust it?

From the naked eye, after all, it looks professionally presented, has Microsoft’s funky new logo.. what could be wrong with this?

Part of the email reads as follows:

We’ve updated the Microsoft Services Agreement , which governs many of our online services – including your Microsoft account and many of our online products and services for consumers, such as Hotmail, SkyDrive, Bing, MSN, Office.com, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker, Windows Mail Desktop and…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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