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File-sharing Programs Carry Trojan Horse
News Advertising software called "Clicktilluwin" that comes bundled with the file-swapping programs carries a program called "W32.DIDer," which Symantec has classified as a Trojan horse -- a piece of code that takes over parts of a person's computer...
[January 3, 2002, 9:37]
Trojan Horse Found Responsible For Child Porn
Talkback Your lawyer must read all stuff concerning evidence eliminator programs because it s very important what they say about the porn stuff that people has into the computers even without knowing that and the way those programs can avoid us to be in...
[October 1, 2003, 13:37]
Mobile-phone Spam Rides In On Trojan Horse
Talkback Its run in computer, but my knowledge is accounting, not computers programs. I´m calling from Brasil, where i never see a spam in phones. I´m a teacher, and I teach how to use an accounting system. I would like to know if I can use an anti-virus in...
[November 10, 2004, 10:47]
Word Flaw Opens Door To Trojan Horse
News A month-old flaw in Microsoft Word has opened up PCs to attack by a new Trojan horse, antivirus researchers said on Thursday. The Trojan horse appears as text file in the rich text format, or RTF, attached to an e-mail, according to British...
[June 15, 2001, 8:31]
New Back Orifice-like Trojan Horse Found
News The Trojan horse arrives in a user's e-mail posing as a screen saver or game update, but once executed, it turns the victim's PC into an "open client. BackDoor-G already has a variant -- a very similar Trojan named "Armageddon" was discovered in...
[May 28, 1999, 8:51]
Trojan Attack Hits Networks Worldwide
News Security experts have warned that a high-level outbreak of Trojan horse programs is hitting networks around the world. The emails, which contain the Trojan horse programs Downloader.ABC and .XZ, purport to be a spam report from an IT administrator.
[July 7, 2005, 17:50]
First Handheld Trojan Emerges
News Backdoor server and Trojan horse programs often use enticing file names to trick users into executing them," said Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager, Symantec Security Response. A malicious Trojan horse program has emerged for Pocket PCs, antivirus...
[August 6, 2004, 8:40]
Minimal Impact Of Palm Trojan Hides Future Danger
News Antivirus vendors report that the first Trojan horse program to affect the Palm handheld computers poses little tangible threat but highlights a significant future danger. This Trojan horse is a very low threat to Palm users who are sensible enough...
[August 30, 2000, 14:37]
UK Users Targeted By Banking Trojan
News After infecting a computer, the Trojan horse waits until the user visits a legitimate bank Web site, then injects malicious HTML into certain fields there. After infecting a computer, the Trojan horse waits until the user visits a legitimate bank...
[March 27, 2006, 9:05]
FBI Uses Hacking Technology For Surveillance
News Yet if the details of the report are correct, the technique doesn't use a virus, but a Trojan horse, a program that acts without the person's knowledge. In my class, I teach how they could use a Trojan horse to go after the keystrokes," he said.
[November 22, 2001, 10:50]
Handhelds Are The New Targets For Viruses
News Because most people sync their devices with a PC, even if a virus or a Trojan horse wipes out their data or programs on the handheld, re-syncing will generally restore any lost information. In Japan, a Trojan horse that appeared on i-mode phones...
[March 20, 2001, 9:29]
Windows VPN Software Allows Attacks
News Microsoft also warned of a bug in Windows 2000 that could allow an attacker to sabotage the system via a Trojan horse. The other bug affects Windows 2000 workstations and a select few Windows XP workstations, and allows a malicious user on a multi...
[October 31, 2002, 14:18]
Surveillance 2: Does It All Ad Up?
News That's the time-honoured principle behind Trojan horse programs like Back Orifice. So what happens when the Trojan horse comes in the form of trusted software? Just last year, three popular programs were discovered to be making surreptitious Net...
[February 25, 2000, 9:45]
Symbian Phones Targeted By 'Skulls' Trojan
News Virus writers are targeting Symbian-based mobile phones with a Trojan horse that kills off system applications and replaces their icons with images of skulls. Only a few people have managed to run across the program on the Web and then downloaded...
[November 22, 2004, 8:05]
IE Flaws Open Back Door To Adware
News Kuperus, who used an email account based in the Netherlands, wrote in an email on Monday that he had been tipped off to the adware Trojan horse by an unnamed individual. The Internet address from which the adware Trojan horse was downloaded...
[June 10, 2004, 8:45]
Malware Records Banking Passwords
News The program points to a recent trend in computer viruses and remote-access Trojan horse, or RAT, programs: Attackers are increasingly after money. Even though all financial sites use encryption built into the browser to protect log-in data, the...
[June 30, 2004, 8:55]
Worm Could Be Clearing Path For DDoS Attack
News A new worm that leaves behind two Trojan horse programs has begun spreading over the Internet, and may be paving the way for a crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The virus -- dubbed WORM_DELODER.A -- has made its way into a...
[March 10, 2003, 8:53]
Palm Hit By Trojan Horse
News According to Palm spokeswoman Julia Rodriguez, the company is unaware of any case of a user's data being deleted by the Trojan horse. A Trojan horse -- a program that poses as a beneficial application, yet does something completely different -- is...
[August 29, 2000, 8:21]
Spyware And Adware... Who's Telling On You?
White Papers They act like a Trojan horse tracking the Internet users' online habits and sending information to the parent company, who uses this information to barrage users with pop-up advertisements, change the browser's home page, or install unwanted...
[December 26, 2004, 23:00]
New Bill Aims To Shine Light On Spyware
White Papers It could sneak in as part of a virus or as a Trojan horse via e-mail, or piggyback onto a piece of software you agreed to download. The goal is to give consumers more control over the programs they download.
[December 26, 2004, 23:00]
