Trojan spreads in blogs, forums, Webmail

[DelJo63]

Ouch; just when you thought Webmail was safe.

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February 27, 2007 (Computerworld) -- A new variant of the "Storm" Trojan is injecting its come-on
into blogs, Web-based message forums and Webmail as part of an effort to spread
itself to an ever-widening net of PCs, according to a security researcher.

...best known as the "Storm worm" but also pegged as "Peacomm" and half a dozen
other names by anti-virus vendors --

An initial infection is still carried out via e-mail, which touts a link that when clicked
downloads a number of malware components to a victimized machine. Once on a PC,
however, the malicious code injects itself into the network stack as a rootkit
and analyzes all outbound Web traffic

the original article is here

 

[kitty500cat]

Wow.

I got an email that looked like it was from my email provider, but the links, though they appeared to go to a legit site, went to some other place. I don't know whether it was just a deal where my email provider had their stuff hosted elsewhere, or whether it was malicious.

 

[ambivolent]

yea ive seen some links like that lately...i just stay away from em no clickey clickey

 

[DelJo63]

Wow.
If only the general public knew more about stopping and preventing malware.

Which is WHY I post this stuff

 

[kitty500cat]

Yeah. I guess I'll keep scanning...