Heard this on CNET so I thought I would pass along...please read carefully, especially YOU CG...lol
Hackers have discovered a new way of duping users onto fraudulent websites: fake parking tickets.
Cars in the US had traffic violation tickets placed on the windscreen, which then directed users to a website.
The website claimed to have photos of the alleged parking violation, but then tricks users into downloading a virus.
Anti-virus firm McAfee says the Vundo Trojan then gets users to install a fake anti-virus scanner.
Vehicles in Grand Forks, North Dakota were the targets for this new type of fraud.
Drivers found the following message on the yellow ticket on their windscreen: "PARKING VIOLATION This vehicle is in violation of standard parking regulations".
The ticket then instructed drivers to visit a website, where drivers could "view pictures with information about your parking preferences".
The website instructed users to download a tool bar containing a virus
According to internet security watchdog The SANS Institute, the website then had photos of cars in various car parks around Grand Forks and instructed users to download a tool bar to find photos of their own vehicle.
But the tool bar was actually an executable file which installed a Trojan virus that then displayed a fake security alert when the PC was rebooted. The fake alert then prompted the user to install fake anti-virus software.
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