WARNING: Fake Direct X Download on the loose!

[hellnoire]

If you follow technology news you should be surprised reading the article title because there is no official DirectX 11 for Windows XP or Vista as of now, Microsoft DirectX 11 (6.01.7000.0000) will be made available on Windows 7 and Windows Vista when officially released in coming months, but virus creators have hoped onto the opportunity and started taking advantage of gamers curiosity to install the latest version of DirectX by posting fake trojan infected DirectX 11 links on blogs and forums, these so called DirectX 11 For Windows XP and Vista installer contained Trojans created in perl scripts which got detected by only three lesser known anti-virus scanners on VirusTotal out of total 39.

Read More Here. - Megaleacher

My only comment is to constantly watch what you download and Windows isn't as fail safe as so many assume.

[xje4bv]

Haha. Just read about it today at Megaleecher too. You've got to be a real noob for falling for swchost.exe, suchost.exe and iiExplorer.exe

[hellnoire]

I wouldn't put it by some people, even my tech friends.

[bahirzaheri8]

iiExplorer.exe and suchost.exe ? Those 2 are TOO obvious

but swchost.exe might not be noticed if I am sleepy

[ding-dong]

thanks for the info hell

[YuMeng]

Direct n00b will fall by that easily detected virus

[brayden]

iiExplorer.exe and suchost.exe ? Those 2 are TOO obvious

but swchost.exe might not be noticed if I am sleepy

yeah but expl0rer.exe is a bit harder to see, i remember when someone was having trouble with that and only raymond noticed the 0 instead of o

[SomeOne]

Wah i see its coming.. thx for the info

[hellnoire]

No problems guys, just keep on the lookout for it.

[Mark]

Thanks for the info hellnoire!