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Lure, entice, threaten, shock or evoke concern! Try
every trick in trade to get the user to open the mail
and download the attachment. That seems to be the motto
of virus writers of late. This new one comes as a ‘wanted’
ad in search of a rapist on the run. Any user with the
right social sense might just be tempted to open the
mail in order to help them find the culprit. Once downloaded,
the attachment will allow hackers to molest your computer
by creating a security hole!
The Troj/Stinx-N Trojan horse spreads through spam
emails. The subject lines found are "Campus Student
Raped" "CCTV still of Rapist" and "Do
you recognize this person?" The body of the message
talks about sexual assault of a university student,
with graphic descriptions of the culprit. If you find
him, you are told to inform the authorities immediately.
The attachments containing the trojan are "Suspects
Photo.exe", "suspect image.exe", "CCTVstill.exe",
"CCTV-footage.exe", and "suspicious photo.exe"
If you run the attached file, this Trojan will create
a passage for the intruder to sneak in. “Troj/Stinx-N
targets the well meaning people. Completely hijacked
by the gravity of the message, one might just open the
mail and download the exe. So far this Trojan has spread
only in the universities of North America and United
Kingdom, but it just might get out of hand and spread
wider. We strongly urge our users to update their software
and watch out for our timely threat alerts” Says
Aneesh Palival, Security Analyst, MicroWorld Technologies.
MicroWorld’s solutions eScan and MailScan are
highly powerful and extremely efficient in fighting
the online malice. Working on a patent pending technology
called MWL (MicroWorld Winsock Layer), they protect
users from Virus, Spyware, Adware, Malware, Keyloggers,
Hackers, Spammers, phishing, Privacy related issues,
Objectionable Content and many more. Besides the hourly
update system for newer threats, MicroWorld also employs
a sophisticated heuristic scanning to foresee even the
future threats.
Resolution
Timely updates of MicroWorld Products will enable you
to keep off threats of this nature. In case of infections,
you can download our free virus and spyware scanning
toolkit ‘MWAV’ from our website.
For more information, please visit;
http://www.mwti.net/virus_info/virusalertd.asp?vid=801
You can also download the trial versions of the MicroWorld
software from the above mentioned website.
MicroWorld
MicroWorld Technologies ( www.mwti.net)
is the developer of the world's most advanced AntiVirus,
Content Security and Firewall software eScan,
MailScan,
and eConceal.
MicroWorld
Winsock Layer (MWL) is the revolutionary technology
that powers most of MicroWorld products enabling them
to achieve several certifications and awards by some
of the most prestigious testing bodies, notable among
them being Virus Bulletin, Checkmark, TUCOWS, Red Hat
Ready and Novell Ready.
To learn more, kindly visit http://www.mwti.net.
From MicroWorld
Email: response@mwti.net
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