Trojan Dropper in Usenet Binary File
Interesting. I’ve been downloading binary files from the Usenet for about fifteen years. The other day, I was downloading what represented itself to be a computer manual. It was a file in .zip format, not that unusual. After downloading it I unzipped the file and found a file in the windows .chm format which was supposed to be the manual. Again, not unusual.
When I clicked the .chm file to open it, much to my surprise, my anti-virus program fired off and alerted me to the fact that the file was infected with the Trojan horse PSW.Banker3.XBI – This particular Trojan dropper is used to capture passwords.
Needless to say, it shows how important it is to practice safe computing, and it’s only getting worse. That’s the first infected .chm file I’ve run across in downloading files during the last fifteen years.
Needless to say, it shows how important it is to practice safe computing, and it’s only getting worse. That’s the first infected .chm file I’ve run across in downloading files during the last fifteen years.
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Categories: Security Tags: Malware, Trojan Horse, Usenet