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1. Fake Jacko Suicide Spam Hides Trojan Horse
A new spam campaign is claiming that Michael Jackson attempted suicide in an effort to
lure users to download a Trojan horse.
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2. Bad Actors Safe Under Spyware Legislation?
Webroot official says Washington should increase penalties but avoid narrow spyware
definitions.
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3. Latest Mytob Worm Using Common Phisher Trick
A few new versions of the Mytob worm are tricking users by sending them to a faked Web
link hosting malicious code.
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4. Gartner: National Data Breach Law Inevitable
Continuing failure of private enterprise to adequately protect data makes problem
impossible to ignore.
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5. Lion's Birthday Wish Hides Trojan Horse
Trojan horse steals passwords and data while animated lion wishes the user a happy
birthday.
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6. 6/9: Smitfraud-A Virus Infects Windows File
Smitfraud.A is a virus that infects the Windows file WININET.DLL and hooks all the calls
to the function HttpSendRequest.
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7. 6/9: Smitfraud an Adware Program
Smitfrafraud is an adware program that infects the Windows file WININET.DLL with the
virus detected as W32/Smitfraud.A.
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8. 6/9: Mytob-DC Worm Drops Copy of Itself
Upon execution, Worm_Mytob.DC drops a copy of itself in the Windows system folder as LIEN
VAN DE KELDER.EXE.
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9. 6/9: Mytob-DD Worm Uses Own Engine
Worm_Mytob.DD propagates via email, which it send to target addresses, using its own SMTP
(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) engine.
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10. 6/9: Mytob-CA a Mass-Mailing Worm
W32/Mytob.ca@MM is a mass-mailing worm that combines W32/Mydoom@MM functionality with
W32/Sdbot.worm functionality.
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11. 6/9: Mytob-CC a Mass-Mailing Worm
W32/Mytob.cc@MM is a mass-mailing worm that combines W32/Mydoom@MM functionality with
W32/Sdbot.worm functionality.
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12. 6/9: Puppet-A Trojan Connects to IRC
Troj/Puppet-A is a Trojan for the Windows platform.
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13. 6/9: PE_Agobot.-A a File Infector
PE_Agobot.A is a file infector that arrives from network shares.
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14. 6/9: Sdbot-AR Performs DDos Attacks
Backdoor.Sdbot.AR is a back door Trojan horse capable of performing distributed denial of
service attacks, act as a proxy, and exploit vulnerabilities.
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15. 6/9: Mytob-DV a Mass-Mailing Worm
W32.Mytob.DV@mm is a mass-mailing worm that has back door capabilities and uses its own
SMTP engine to send an email to addresses that it gathers from the compromised computer.
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16. 6/9; Mytob-AQ a Mass-Mailing Worm
W32/Mytob-AQ is a mass-mailing worm for the Windows platform.
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17. 6/9: Kelvir-AE an IM Windows Worm
W32/Kelvir-AE is an instant messaging worm for the Windows platform.
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