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IT experts have warned that a series of Trojan horses have
been spammed out to millions of email addresses around the
world.
Although these Trojan horses are now accounting for over
25% of spam emails currently being received, users are being
informed that thankfully the Trojan horses are failing to
successfully attack recipients' computers due to a bug in
their code!!!
Currently it seems as though the Trojan horse is being used
to attack computers in United States and United Kingdom, although
numerous other countries in Europe, South America and Asia
are reported to have been affected by the Trojan.
The spammed out email messages do not have any subject line,
but they have the message text of "new price" with
attachments of varying names including 09_price.zip, price_new.zip,
and price2.zip. These ZIP files all contain files with the
extension .CPL.
Once opened the .CPL files would drop another file onto their
hard drive causing all information that the user has to be
lost. Luckily for everyone, due to amateur errors in the author's
code they have failed to run properly. And so although the
Trojans whose variants include Troj/Dropper-BB, Troj/Dropper-BC,
Troj/Dropper-BD and Troj/Dropper-BE were designed with malicious
intentions, they can do no harm to computer users.
"This Trojan horse author has made an ass of himself
by sending out this garbage," said Carole Theriault,
security consultant at Sophos. "Though everyone is happy
that he has failed to write functioning malicious code, he
has still clogged inboxes the world over with this junk."
This problem can be combated using ArmourPlate. The ArmourPlate
Anti
Spam service works by scanning your company's email to
stop spam before it reaches your computer network. Your company's
email is filtered by our proprietary, highly sophisticated
spam recognition engine, 'Robot 5', which will detect almost
all spam and places it in an individual user's Spam Box, housed
on the ArmourPlate system. Each email user can view their
Spam Box via a Web browser.
By not having ArmourPlate Your company is at very real risk.
Using the ArmourPlate service will safeguard your company
and save you money.
ArmourPlate is considerably more cost effective than tackling
the spam and virus problem internally at your company.
Having spam and virus emails stopped at source by us saves
you from investing in hardware, software and IT time, freeing
up resources to focus on other issues.
No more spam. No more viruses. Simple!
Source: Sophos
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