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Over the last two or three days I have been getting numerous emails that appear to be spam, all with the the title of "Media Cool 2.0 - where to download". It appears to be running from a trojan, as the CC list has "real" names in it that look like it was mined from someone's address book. I have received it quite a few times, from different sender names, all with the same body. The body of the email is the following:

Hello,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I'm sorry for taking your time reading this message. I would like to introduce a product.

Media Cool 2.0 is a media searching/extracting/playing tool for your home entertainment. Do you have problem downloading flv videos (such as youtube video) or do you want to save these online music to your disk or ipod? Media Cool helps to make it.

You may find evaluation copy by googling: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=media+cool+2.0&btnG=Google+Search

Hope it useful for you.

Also, please see here for how to use it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUbAAL8_xI4

Have a good day.

(Note: I deliberately didn't enable the URLs in the email body - if you want to go to the links, you can copy/paste them yourself.)

This seems very fishy to me, except that it a) uses Google to have you find an evaluation copy of the software, and b) uses YouTube to show you how to use it. My thoughts are that the software itself probably has malware or spyware built into it, and they are trying to get it seeded into society before activating the payload. In any case, something doesn't seem quite right to me, because of the delivery mechanism of the email itself.

Have any of you gotten these emails as well? What do you think of this? Have you heard anything else about this? I can't find anything about it on the 'net.

Any information you want to share would be appreciated.

One final note: Be careful - even though none of us can find anything wrong with this, that doesn't mean you still shouldn't be very cautious. You're on your own, but I would recommend not installing anything you're unsure of, and as far as I am concerned this product falls into that category. Just be careful out there...

Rock
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