Social engineering viruses are getting smarter. This one, which spreads by e-mail like virtually everything else, but it forges the headers to look like it’s coming from support@microsoft.com, and contains a grammatically correct (and vaguely plausible) warning about SSL certificates.
I’m not thrilled about this “progress”, but at least it’s easier to understand why people would open this compared to “I send you this file to ask your advice.” Who falls for that? (Answer: almost everybody. But it’s still depressing.)
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