New Mass Mailing Spamming Internet Trojan for the Windows Platform
May. 16th 2005 - MicroWorld has reported the discovery of Troj/Sober-Q, which is a mass mailing spamming internet Trojan for the Windows platform. Some of the spam emails sent by this Trojan takes to respectable German news outlets, such as Spiegel etc., as reported by MicroWorld, which contain articles on: 1. "Necessasity of Health Reforms"; 2. "asylum seekers receive first class private supply while medical supply for Germans abolished"; 3. "Dentists- enormous content increases expense of the contribution payers" etc. It affects Windows operating system and is also know by aliases such as Email-Worm.Win32.Sober.q and W32/Sober.q@MM In order to protect yourself from this worm ensure that you have the very latest update of the eScan/MailScan software. MicroWorld provides Hourly Updates to its customer. For further information on detection and removal of "Troj/Sober-Q" please visit the below mentioned link. http://www.mwti.net/virusnews/virusalertd.asp?id=610 Download the free MicroWorld Anti Virus Toolkit that detects viruses in system registry and running processes Link 1 --- ftp://ftp.microworldsystems.com/download/tools/mwav.exe
Link 2 --- ftp://update.mailscan.info/download/tools/mwav.exe For more information please write to manish@mwti.net For technical support please mail to support@mwti.net MicroWorld (www.mwti.net">http://www.mwti.net) is the publisher of world's first real time antivirus and content security software eScan and MailScan, for desktops, file servers, citrix servers, proxy servers and Mail Servers. Working on revolutionary MicroWorld Winsock Layer(MWL) technology, MicroWorld's time tested and reliable products have seen bestowed with certificates and awards by some of the most prestigious testing bodies like Virus Bulletin, Checkmark, TUCOWS, and Advanced CheckVir, Red Hat Ready, Novell Ready etc. MicroWorld Technologies is one of the leading solution providers for Information Technology, Content Security and Communications Software.
MicroWorld's Revolutionary "MicroWorld-WinSock-Layer (MWL)" technology, the first of its kind in the world. It deals with these threats before they enter your network, in the same way that a firewall controls user access.
MORE RESOURCES:
Updated : Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:44:49 GMT
Back to School Days Raise Internet Security Concerns for Parents TMCnet - 7 hours ago ... told TMCnet that there are three things that the ISPs should do in the Web security space to ensure that children and families are protected from ... Publ.Date : Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:27:15 GMT
Report: Popular Web Attacks Go Stealth Dark Reading, NY - Aug 27, 2008 Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at ScanSafe, says her Web security services firm is also seeing more obfuscation, including encryption, ... Publ.Date : Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:49:26 GMT
Furniture Retailer WS Badcock Corp. Protects Essential Information ... CNNMoney.com - Aug 27, 2008 In business for more than 100 years with more than 1200 employees and 300 locations throughout the Southeast, longtime Websense Web security customer, ... Publ.Date : Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:06:07 GMT
The depressing future of the Internet ZDNet - 4 hours ago So what will be the death of the Internet and/or the world wide web ? Security flaws? Backend infrastructure crumbling? Spam, crap, Viagra and more porn than ... Publ.Date : Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:16:19 GMT
Web Application Hacks: Upping The Arms Race InformationWeek, NY - Aug 27, 2008 Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at ScanSafe, says her Web security services firm is also seeing more obfuscation, including encryption, ... Publ.Date : Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:37:25 GMT
Security Briefs MSDN Magazine - 6 hours ago Security professionals—even Web security professionals—often disagree with me when I make this claim. But consider that some of the most damaging attack ... Publ.Date : Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:55:27 GMT
Canada.com IE8 Beta 2 Ratchets Up Security , Firefox Comparisons CRN, NY - 6 hours ago Some of the other advances to IE8 include Web slices, which lets users subscribe to the content on different parts of Web pages and have it sent directly to ... Internet Explorer 8 Release Approaches As Microsoft Offers Second Beta InformationWeek Microsoft Updates IE Patch Due to VML Flaw Redmondmag.com Internet Explorer 8 (Beta 2) brings more changes guardian.co.uk Register - San Jose Mercury News all 790 news articles Publ.Date : Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:47:44 GMT
|