Another one of those nasty 'spy ware' thingies

[Guest guest]

This was in today's Sydney Morning Herald. I have sent the article to several

of the groups to which I belong so I apologise if you get it more than once.

 

I DON'T like people who deliberately want to harm others!

 

Merinda

Spying computer virus masquerades as screensaver December 10, 2004

 

A virus that spies on keystrokes and downloads passwords and bank account

details is circulating among emails, masquerading as a screensaver designed by

Internet portal Lycos to attack spammers, a watchdog warned yesterday.

 

 

Finnish anti-virus company F-Secure said the so-called Trojan horse started to

be distributed among emails on Monday.

 

The mail has the subject line " Be the first to fight spam with Lycos screen " and

comes with an attachment entitled " Lycos screensaver to fight spam " , F-Secure

said on its website.

 

Whoever downloads it unwittingly installs a spying program called Perfect

Keylogger, which records the user's keystrokes to harvest personal data, such as

passwords and details of bank accounts.

 

The Trojan horse is hooked up to an email adress in Indonesia, the British

science magazine New Scientist said in a website report yesterday.

 

It added that spammers themselves, angered by Lycos, were probably behind the

attack.

 

Lycos' screensaver - " Make Love Not Spam " - was launched in Europe on November

30

 

The screensaver barraged notorious spam websites with data, in the hope of

clogging up bandwidth and thus driving up their costs.

 

But it was scrapped just four days later amid criticism that it was adding to

the problem of useless data already being carried on the Internet.

 

AFP

 

 

 

 

 

Regards

Merinda

 

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[Guest guest]

, Merinda <aromamerinda>

wrote:

> This was in today's Sydney Morning Herald. I have sent the article

to several of the groups to which I belong so I apologise if you get

it more than once.

>

> I DON'T like people who deliberately want to harm others!

>

> Merinda

 

Hi - thanks for warning Merinda

AV or firewalls wont catch this either. If you think you may have

been caught - have a look at http://tinyurl.com/6682w for " Spy Ware "

removal programs.

LLx