Wait, STOP – Are you installing Windows 10 or ransomware?

Sorry to say but...I have been waiting for this one and all I can say is what took them so long (just goes to show what a cynic I am in my dotage).  At every, but I mean every opportunity, there will be some miscreant ready and waiting to try to take advantage of innocent people...and no doubt they will succeed in making some poor peoples life a misery as a result.
 
I really think that the nations of the world show come together under, say, the United Nations banner and seek to root out these **bleep** once and for all.
 
:@
 
 

By  David Ndichu Published  August 2, 2015
Caution is urged as scammers try to take advantage of the recent Windows 10 launch to have eager but unsuspecting PC users download ransomware onto their PCs.
According to Cisco, cyber criminals are impersonating Microsoft in an attempt to exploit their user base for monetary gain. They are doing this by spoofing the email to look like it is coming directly from Microsoft (updatemicrosoft.com). The email purports to contain the installer package for Windows 10. The attackers are even using a similar colour scheme to the one used by Microsoft.
Cisco experts have been able to unmask the attackers, establishing that the message actually originated from IP address space allocated to Thailand.
Once a user opens the email, downloads the attached zip file, extracts it, and runs the executable, they get a message informing them that their PC has been infected and their files encrypted by CTB-Locker. They are then told to pay a certain amount of money within 96 hours to have their files decrypted or they lose them forever.
 
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QUESTION : Are we correctly protected against this by Webroot ?

Hi Baldrick
Of course, you are right;)

On Firday, Cisco's Talos Group has spotted an email campaign impersonating Microsoft, offering potential victims an attachment that is supposedly a Windows 10 installer (click on the screenshot to enlarge it):

http://www.net-security.org/images/articles/win10-03082015-small.jpg

Even though the email contains several characters that don’t parse properly, the fact that the email seems to come from a legitimate-looking email address (update@microsoft.com), uses a color scheme and disclaimer similar to the one used by Microsoft, and contains an indication that the message attachment has been scanned by an antivirus solution, will likely fool many into downloading and running the attached file.
 
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At this point in time one has to be cautious when downloading Windows 10 a lot of scammers out there.