As reported in his blog, the security firm ESET has found a website that supposedly gives users a new beta version of MSN Messenger, which would send SMS for free.

However, this is not any version of Messenger or anything similar, just a hoax so that users become infected with a malicious application. If you click "download now", which is a lower rate Qhost trojan which aims to redirect users to other fraudulent websites.

For users to fall into the trap of thinking that this is an official version from Microsoft, the page by copying the design of the Web MSN.

So very careful with this kind of fake pages that are distributed through e-mails. What more appropriate to something like this is removed immediately and not to click on any link or attachment.

Link: ESET Latinoamérica

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