[M]uuhh
19-11-2007, 20:51
I wouldn’t post this here usually but I hope to give this as much attention as possible as a few people I know have been hit by this Trojan that disguises itself on your PC via a VM Rootkit. It seems to be spreading like wildfire over the MSN network. Im sure almost all of you use MSN messenger so here are the details, and as a rule, don’t accept any images from anyone unless your sure its safe.
A Trojan is introducing malware into thousands of computer systems worldwide, and the number is growing by the hour.
The malware is being introduced by MSN Messenger files posing as pictures, mostly seeming to come from known acquaintances.
The files are a new type of Trojan that has snared several thousand PCs for a bot network within hours of its launch earlier on Nov. 18 and is being used to discover virtual PCs as a means of increasing its growth vector.
The eSafe CSRT (Content Security Response Team) at Aladdin—a security company—detected the new threat propagating around noon EST on Nov. 18. At 18:00 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), eSafe had detected 1 operator and more than 500 on-command bots in the network. Less than three hours later, or by 2:30 EST, when eWEEK spoke with Roei Lichtman, eSafe director of product management, the number had soared to several thousand PCs and was growing by several hundred systems per hour.
Rootkits :(
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2218894,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
A Trojan is introducing malware into thousands of computer systems worldwide, and the number is growing by the hour.
The malware is being introduced by MSN Messenger files posing as pictures, mostly seeming to come from known acquaintances.
The files are a new type of Trojan that has snared several thousand PCs for a bot network within hours of its launch earlier on Nov. 18 and is being used to discover virtual PCs as a means of increasing its growth vector.
The eSafe CSRT (Content Security Response Team) at Aladdin—a security company—detected the new threat propagating around noon EST on Nov. 18. At 18:00 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), eSafe had detected 1 operator and more than 500 on-command bots in the network. Less than three hours later, or by 2:30 EST, when eWEEK spoke with Roei Lichtman, eSafe director of product management, the number had soared to several thousand PCs and was growing by several hundred systems per hour.
Rootkits :(
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2218894,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594