A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and
kill again!, Chinese missile shot down USA aircraft,
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has kicked
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Muslims Genocide,
230 dead as storm batters Europe, and finally, 'Saddam
Hussein alive'!
These are some of the subject lines of an ongoing
Trojan spam campaign that was shot off like a missile
and is spreading like a storm across the world at
present. Most of the email subject lines are inspired
by the current international socio-political events,
though the figment of the author’s(s) imagination
is stretched too far in most cases!
Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies says
the Trojan Downloader named Win32.Agent.bet rides
on a mass mailing campaign with smart titles and carries
attachments like FullClip.exe, Full Story.exe, Video.exe
and Read More.exe.
“This is clever malware proliferation as the
people behind this campaign knows it well that shock
is perhaps the best way to momentarily freeze one’s
rational thinking and get him or her to do what they
want,” points out Sunil Kripalani, Vice President,
Global Sales and Marketing, MicroWorld Technologies.
“You can see that the subject lines of most of
these mails are written well and it simply adds to
their conviction powers!”
Win32.Agent.bet is a Trojan Downloader with Backdoor
capabilities and peer-to-peer communication possibilities.
The Trojan can log on to predefined websites in order
to download possible malicious code into the victim’s
computer while it also opens some UDP ports to communicate
with the peers. A component named WINCOM32.SYS of
Win32.Agent.bet has rootkit capabilities and helps
it avoid detection by security software in some cases.
MicroWorld Technologies offers comprehensive protection
against all kinds of Virus, Trojan, Worm and other
malwares with its security solutions MailScan and
eScan. MailScan 5, the newly launched version of the
AntiVirus, AntiSpam and Content Security software
employs some futuristic technologies in Virus Protection
and Spam Filtering.
“Malware attacks like these are best protected
at the email Gateway level, by not letting the malicious
code enter into the Mail Servers. With MWL technology,
we make sure that the mailing systems are given the
most external, enclosing and proactive protection
from all angles. Club that with our multilayered Spam
Filtering and you’ve got the safest Security
System, guarding your organizations email infrastructure
round the clock,” says Govind Rammurthy, CEO
of MicroWorld Technologies.
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.
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