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hi team look what i found .so be care ful out there.i got it from another board .

al i know is what ive posred here but ile hunt for more info

New virus camouflaged as screensaver

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New virus camouflaged as screensaver

Posted Thu, 09 Dec 2004

A virus that spies on keystrokes and downloads passwords and bank account details is circulating among emails, masquerading as a screensaver designed by internet portal Lycos to attack stammers, a watchdog warned on Thursday.

Finnish anti-virus company F-Secure said the so-called Trojan horse started to be distributed among emails on Monday.

The mail has the subject line "Be the first to fight spam with Lycos screen" and comes with an attachment entitled "Lycos screensaver to fight spam," F-Secure said on its website.

Whoever downloads it unwittingly installs a spying programme called Perfect Keylogger, which records the user's keystrokes to harvest personal data, such as passwords and details of bank accounts.

The Trojan horse is hooked up to an email address in Indonesia, the British science magazine New Scientist said in a website report on Thursday.

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hi team look what i found .so be care ful out there.i got it from another board .

al i know is what ive posred here but ile hunt for more info

New virus camouflaged as screensaver

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New virus camouflaged as screensaver

Posted Thu, 09 Dec 2004

A virus that spies on keystrokes and downloads passwords and bank account details is circulating among emails, masquerading as a screensaver designed by internet portal Lycos to attack stammers, a watchdog warned on Thursday.

Finnish anti-virus company F-Secure said the so-called Trojan horse started to be distributed among emails on Monday.

The mail has the subject line "Be the first to fight spam with Lycos screen" and comes with an attachment entitled "Lycos screensaver to fight spam," F-Secure said on its website.

Whoever downloads it unwittingly installs a spying programme called Perfect Keylogger, which records the user's keystrokes to harvest personal data, such as passwords and details of bank accounts.

The Trojan horse is hooked up to an email address in Indonesia, the British science magazine New Scientist said in a website report on Thursday.

sorry i didnt see the other post until ide posted mine

sorry bout that

marty

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