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'Kill Bill' Trojan stumbles at the starting blocks

edited October 2003 in Science & Tech
A new Trojan horse virus, which poses as a DivX file, containing subtitles from the new Quentin Tarantino movie Kill Bill, has started to appear.

The Manda-A Trojan arrives as a .RAR file with a malformed header, and carries a size of 35347 bytes. The file masquerades as a subtitle attaché, which normally would be used to enable foreign language speakers to follow the plot of a film using the DivX format.

This method of infection however has proved quite ineffective and is more of a curious annoyance than a serious threat, however the Trojan in question is a particular nasty one, so you should all be on the look out nevertheless.

[blockquote]"The backdoor sends network and internet passwords, as well as statistical system information by email, to the virus author", [/blockquote]
[link=http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/pwsteal.salira.html]Technical Information From Symantec[/link]
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