Sobig Blamed For Fourfold Rise In Spam
News Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant for Sophos estimated that around a third of spam was relayed through "hijacked computers" because of Remote Access Trojans (RAT), which are files that give control of a PC to an attacker.
[December 9, 2003, 9:40]
Researchers: Cyberattacks Outstripping Defences
News Such exploits happen when these Trojans successfully penetrate a PC by fooling the user into opening an email attachment, or going to a malicious website," he added. Like Trojans, these codes are then used to steal valuable data, such as bank...
[September 7, 2007, 9:51]
'Swiss Army Knife' Virus Appears In A Weekend
News The worm combines multiple attack techniques in an innovative way: spamming, social engineering, virus infection and Trojans. The reader on the target machine follows a link sent in the email, which leads to a Web site hosted on the original...
[November 9, 2004, 13:53]
'Rogue' Cleaning Tool Targets Mac Users
News We are really trying to make a good software [sic], and you won't find any viruses/spyware/Trojans/malware in MacSweeper (test it yourself, if you don't believe me, you can use any type of firewalls, dissemblers, or other tools) [sic].
[January 16, 2008, 12:43]
Massive Demand For Unauthorised Windows Patch
News To minimise risk from these Trojans, systems administrators have been advised by F-Secure to block user access to the following: HTTP access to playtimepiano[dot]home[dot]comcast[dot]net TFTP (ie. The WMF flaw can be used by malicious software to...
[January 4, 2006, 16:15]
Mac OS X With 100 Bugs: Still Safer Than Windows?
News A lot of things like Trojans and email worms [affect the Mac] the same as they would in the PC world. There are no viruses really for OS X — there have been a few — but, from that point of view, the likelihood of you getting hit on an Apple is...
[July 11, 2007, 16:30]
Forget Bagle, The Real Threat Is Home Users
News Corporate spam and antivirus company Sophos last month estimated that one-third of all spam circulating the Web is relayed through PCs that have been compromised by Remote Access Trojans (RATs). They don't know it, but their PC is being used as a...
[January 23, 2004, 15:20]
Talk Talk Talks Up Internet Security
News But both firms said on Thursday ISPs should also be doing more to protect customers from the threat of viruses, Trojans and worms at the network level. Gatman added that customers were becoming aware that "viruses were getting more cunning," and...
[September 23, 2005, 16:05]
Crafty Bagle Viruses Keep Spreading review
Reviews This version of Bagle, like previous versions, attempts to turn off antivirus and firewall security, so once it is implanted on as many desktops as it can infect, these four Bagle-related Trojans attempt to download some mystery program onto the...
[March 7, 2005, 10:00]
Trojan Horse Found Responsible For Child Porn
Talkback Amongst all of these things there are a couple of points worth mentioning - I had umpteen viruses on my pc, I was stupid and didn't have a virus scanner until lately, many of them were trojans - Will they bring that up?
[November 25, 2004, 13:32]
