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Two-wave Bagle Trojan Attack Launched
News Two waves of spam were launched this week using a new variant of the Bagle Trojan, according to antivirus company Sophos. The BagleDL-U trojan tries to turn off antivirus and security software and block access to security Web sites, in an attempt...
[September 21, 2005, 17:15]
Yeah, Yeah, LOOK!, Bewerbung, And More Virus Variants
News It does not download the password stealing trojan. It does not download the password stealing trojan. Overwrites *.ZIP and *.RAR files instead of *.JPG and *.JPEG file. VBS/Loveletter.n Alias: Variant Test
[May 10, 2000, 8:44]
Swedish Bank Hit By 'biggest Ever' Online Heist
News Users who downloaded the attached file, called raking.zip or raking.exe, were infected by the Trojan, which some security companies call haxdoor.ki. Over the last 15 months, Nordea customers have been targeted by emails containing a tailormade...
[January 19, 2007, 14:17]
Bagle And Mytob Evolve Again
News The attachment is a ZIP archive that will attempt to download a Trojan horse from a list of Web sites, if unpacked and run. The Trojan harvests email addresses from the PC to further spread the virus, Schipka said.
[June 1, 2005, 9:05]
Help & HowTo: Sobig.e Worm
News It will also attempt to download Trojan horse files from a Web site. The attached file is your_details.zip. Since ZIP files are ignored by most extension-blocking rules within email clients, you should not attempt to open this file.
[June 26, 2003, 10:20]
Trojan Poses As Fake Lycos Screensaver
News An identity-stealing email Trojan that disguises itself as the Lycos anti-spam screensaver is being distributed around the Internet. According to antivirus company F-Secure, the key-logging Trojan steals usernames, passwords, credit card details...
[December 7, 2004, 11:00]
'Suicidal Osama Bin Laden' Recruits A Zombie Army
Talkback Posting information on a Linux newsgroup for a Windows Trojan shows a lot of intelligence *NOT*. I'm having some difficulty getting the backdoor trojan in that link to run. As yet, this information has not hit the headlines due to Bush wanting...
[July 24, 2004, 0:58]
Trojan 'kidnaps' Data
News Experts warned computer users on Wednesday of a Trojan that could steal their data and try to sell it back to them. Sophos discovered this key by disassembling the Trojan. Zippo-A (also known as CryZip) searches for word documents, database files...
[March 15, 2006, 16:20]
Storm Worm Stirs Up Email Virus Chaos
News Email users should be on alert for messages with "love"-related subject lines and an executable attachment that would contain a Trojan virus, as well as messages with "Worm Alert! subject lines that contained a .zip file full of malicious code.
[April 16, 2007, 11:24]
Trojan Horse Found Responsible For Child Porn
Talkback I had a bad experience with a porn trojan, but thankfully it was just embarrassing as it was adult porn rather than child porn. As I say, thankfully, it was not child porn sites that the trojan launched and installed links to on my machine, but it...
[August 16, 2003, 9:11]
Latest Bagle Causes Concern
News Antivirus companies have found a new type of Trojan horse that is being massmailed around the world by spammers. Any Trojan horse which turns off your antivirus or firewall can open you up to further attack, even by very old viruses," said Graham...
[March 1, 2005, 12:20]
After Two Years, Netsky-P Is Still Worst Virus
News Sophos identified a total of 1,998 new threats in August 2006, with Trojan horses accounting for 71.8 percent of those threats. Netsky-P was followed by Mytob-AS, which accounted for 15.8 percent of malicious software reports, while Bagle-Zip...
[September 4, 2006, 9:20]
100% Anti-virus Gaurantee - Fallacy !
Talkback I read with interest your article on the Trojan's that are going across the Internet at the moment. Their excuse is that a) it is a zero day virus and b) you have to have your service configured to their exact specification i.e.don't allow through...
[April 16, 2007, 14:27]
Beware The 'Happy New Year' Worm
News Security experts say that although the virus looks similar to the Warezov Trojan horse that has plagued the internet for the past month, it is actually a new variant of the worm and has been largely undetected as of 28 December.iDefense performed...
[January 2, 2007, 7:57]
Trojan Horse Targets AOL Subscribers
News Considered a Trojan horse, this virus is less insidious than some, in that Net users must open the attachment in order to become infected. The infected email comes with a subject line reading "hey you" and an attachment titled "mine.zip.
[February 1, 2001, 16:08]
'Happy New Year' Worm Fizzles Out
News Sophos has called the worm Dref V, but it is also known as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Tibs.jy. The worm, which was first detected last last week, is sent as an email attachment called either postcard.exe or postcard.zip.
[January 2, 2007, 11:36]
Bilingual Worm Masquerades As Microsoft Patch
News In January, the Xombe or Trojan.Xombe worm posed as a critical patch for Windows XP. According to Finnish antivirus company F-Secure, Sober.D spreads either as an executable attachment or inside a password-protected Zip archive attached to an email.
[March 8, 2004, 11:40]
Bagle Uses Outlook Flaw To Speed Replication
News A new iteration of a Trojan horse with an unusually comprehensive set of features has also appeared. Phatbot is the Swiss army knife of Trojan horses," said Hyppönen. To fool antivirus software, the next batch of Bagles was sent with the infected...
[March 18, 2004, 11:55]
Thanksgiving Will Bring A Sober Hangover
News We haven't seen a cut-off date in this Trojan, so this outbreak could continue for some time," said Wood. The zip file in the attachment contains a copy of the worm with the filename File-packed_dataInfo.exe.
[November 25, 2005, 16:25]
There's No Worm In Your Apple - Honest
Talkback If it emails itself out, it's most likely a trojan horse because it tries to get the receiver to read the email and click on it. Based on these traditional viewpoints, opener is neither a trojan horse, worm, or a hybrid.
[November 1, 2004, 19:07]
