Horia Cretan – the name of the Romanian that saves boy from burning building – inflames computers

Once the hotness of Roman Polanski's arrest is gone and the flames of curiosity exploited for wicked purposes are also fading, the malware authors laid their eyes (and payloads) on some other breaking news.

This week, the maliciously crafted Web sites exploit Horia (Billy) Cretan. His name displays in the top ten results on search engines when queried about the Good Samaritan who saved a 4-year-old-boy from a burning building in Bronx, NYC.

The M.O. is already classical: when clicked, the link of an apparently legitimate Web site automatically redirects the browser towards a Web page that infects the unwary user with a variant of Total Security Rogue, detected by BitDefender as Trojan.Downloader.Fakealert.DD.

A word of advice: be cautious when clicking search engines results and make sure your antimalware suite is up and running.