OT. Fake Microsoft Email is Really a Worm

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Fake Microsoft Email is Really a Worm

Big news on the security front this week (and one that several readers wrote

asking about) is a message going around that pretends to be a message from

Microsoft but the return address (support) is forged and it

contains a malicious attachment. This is actually a new variation on an old

trick, one that was first reported back in May but is now back in a new

incarnation:

http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=030923SE-Fake_Email

The current version is known as Swen (W32.Swen.A@mm) and it claims to be a patch

for Internet Explorer. When you run it, you get a dialog box that says Microsoft

Internet Update Pack. The worm has been spreading not only through email, but

also through IRC, KaZaA and newsgroups.

For more info, or if you think you've been infected, go to the Symantec web site

for removal instructions:

http://www.winxpnews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=030923SE-Swen

Pack of Trojan Horses on the Loose

Five of the six new virus threats listed on the Symantec web site this week are

Trojan horses. Trojans are programs that often hide themselves in other,

innocent programs and open a channel for an attacker to come in through a " back

door " and perform actions on your computer, taking control of your system,

deleting files, running programs, or whatever else he/she wants to do.

The latest Trojans include: Backdoor.Surdux, Backdoor.Hazzer, Backdoor.Peeper,

Backdoor.IRC.Aladinz.D, and Trojan.Linux.Zab. The first four affect Windows

systems (the last one affects Linux). Be sure to run a good anti-virus program

and update your definition files often (we update ours daily).

 

 

 

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