Warning: Fake TweetDeck Update on Twitter

Darryl Cobb Aug 31, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Internet, Twitter, breaking

It looks like some hackers are trying to take advantage of unsuspecting TweetDeck users. TweetDeck’s Official Support page state’s the following — ”We are seeing a number of updates on Twitter urging users to download a file called “tweetdeck-08302010-update.exe” from a URL beginning withhttp://alturl.com/. — These tweets are from hacked accounts and this file does not come from us. Do not download it. 

Official updates are exclusively available at: http://www.tweetdeck.com/desktop/ To ensure your safety TweetDeck files should only be downloaded from this location.  Links to all the main official downloads are shown in the right-hand sidebar of our support site http://support.tweetdeck.com. If in doubt, only download from here or http://www.tweetdeck.com itself.

The updates often being with one of the following phrases:

1. TweetDeck will work until tomorrow, udate now!

2. Download TweetDeck udate ASAP! 

3. Update TweetDeck! 

4. Hurry up for tweetdeck update!

5. Sorry for offtopic, but it is a critical TweetDeck update. It won’t work tomorrow!”

Also, from TweetDeck’s Official Twitter page, they go on to say, “Links to official TweetDeck downloads are provided in the right-hand sidebar of our support site http://support.tweetdeck.com”