It’s a backhanded compliment when you’re trusted enough to attract this kind of malware emails.

I thought I’d pass on the Tor Project’s official comment on the Storm spoof emails:

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The Tor Project, a US non-profit organisation producing Internet
privacy software, is issuing an urgent warning about a spam email
being circulated as a fake promotion for their software.

The real Tor software provides privacy on the Internet to journalists,
bloggers and human rights activists all over the world. The spam email
promotes the virtues of the software, but then directs people to a
series of fake websites that contain malicious code that will attempt
to take over visiting machines, and the downloaded software is fake
and equally dangerous to run.

The real website is hosted at http://tor.eff.org and the Tor
software can be downloaded from there. Users are able to check that
they have received the official version by following the instructions
at: http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/VerifyingSignatures

Shava Nerad, Development Director for the Tor Project said, “I am
disgusted that criminals who want to recruit more machines for their
illegal activities should trade on our reputation for providing
privacy on the Internet. Fortunately we already have systems in place
so that people can verify that they are downloading the official
software. But this is a distraction from our work that we could do
without.”
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Of course, we encourage people to go to our actual site, download and use Tor, donate, and volunteer!

Thanks!
Shava Nerad
Development Director, The Tor Project.