Trojan Horse Poses As Windows XP Update

[Tony 1]

From Yahoo News

 

A new Swen-style Trojan horse posing as a critical update from Microsoft has been detected on the Internet, and users who open the e-mail message may find their machines loaded with a back-door Trojan that can steal passwords or be used in conjunction with other systems to conduct major denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

 

 

Dubbed Trojan.Xombe (as in zombie) by most security firms, the Trojan shares some characteristics of the Swen worm family in that it masquerades as a message from Microsoft and purports to carry a security update in its file attachment. However, unlike Swen--a worm which first appeared last September--Trojan.Xombe doesn't self-replicate.

 

 

"This Trojan was spammed out to a large number of computers overnight," said Ken Dunham, the director of malicious code at iDefense, a Reston, Va.-based security intelligence firm. By using spamming strategies, attackers hope to infect hundreds, even thousands, of machines before users realize what's up, or anti-virus companies can react with updated definition files.

[chesters1]

i blame I.E. and Outlook ,most virus that scrape through on my machine just cause windows to open a box enquiring what to open the file with ,netscape maybe not the ideal browser but its not as risky and full of holes as I.E

[Newt]

i blame I.E. and Outlook

 

I'm confused. You blame applications because folks without current virus protection open infected email attachments that cannot possibly have originated from Microsoft because they never, ever so things that way??

 

Would you have also voted to award a settlement to the woman who spilled hot coffee in her lap and sued the place that sold her the coffee?

 

And the reality is that Netscape is as full of holes as IE. Just slightly different ones and not enough folks using the browser to make it worth being a major target of the low-life people who write virus programs.