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1. Virus Poses as Breaking News on Pope, Bin Laden
A new virus is being masked as breaking news about the capture of Osama Bin Laden and
conspiracy theories about the death of Pope John Paul II.
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2. Security Execs: Under Pressure and Under Prepared
A survey of corporate security executives say they're not prepared to prevent inadvertent
loss of data or social engineering attacks. And most say their job is more difficult than
it was last year.
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3. Beware E-Card that Delivers Trojan Horse
A new spam campaign poses as an announcement of an e-card, but actually is just a ruse,
tricking users into visiting a malicious Web site where their computer is infected with a
Trojan horse.
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4. 6/28: SpybotRBY Worm Opens Back Door
W32.Spybot.RBY is a worm that opens a back door on the compromised computer.
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5. 6/28: Meetot Worm Copies Itself to Drives
W32.Meetot is a worm that copies itself to mapped drives.
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6. 6/28: Banker-DV a Password-Stealing Trojan
Troj/Banker-DV is a password-stealing Trojan targeted at customers of Brazilian banks.
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7. 6/28: Sokiron Trojan Steals Addresses
Trojan.Sokiron is a Trojan horse that steals email address and registers the addresses
for a pornographic service.
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8. 6/28: Filukin-A a Mass-Mailing Worm
W32.Filukin.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends a copy of itself to email addresses
gathered from the compromised computer.
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9. 6/28: Kelvir-DR Worm Spreads Via IM
W32.Kelvir.DR is a worm that spreads through MSN Messenger.
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10. 6/28: Alcra-B Worm Uses File Sharing
W32.Alcra.B is a worm that propagates through file-share networks and attempts to disable
several programs on the compromised computer.
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11. 6/28: Traxg-B Worm Spreads Via Outlook
W32/Traxg-B is a worm that attempts to spread using Microsoft Outlook.
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12. 6/28: Insor-B a Downloader & Proxy Trojan
Troj/Insor-B is a downloader and proxy Trojan.
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13. 6/28: Zlob-K a Downloader Trojan
Troj/Zlob-K is a downloader Trojan.
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14. 6/28: Kelvir-CB an IM Worm
W32/Kelvir-CB is an instant messaging worm for the Windows platform.
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