[antivirus] FW: Virus News: Trojan Virus Masquerades As Kaspersky Anti-Virus
- From: "Lim, Franciscus" <Franciscus.Lim@xxxxxxx>
- To: AntivirusClub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Antivirus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,vaksin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:19:43 +0800
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From: news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 7:44 PM
To: news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Virus News: Trojan Virus Masquerades As Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Virus News. Thursday, August 22, 2002
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1. Trojan Virus Masquerades As Kaspersky Anti-Virus
2. How to subscribe/unsubscribe
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1. Trojan Virus Masquerades As Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Kaspersky Labs warns computer users of a massive mailing of the
Trojan-style malicious program, TrojanDownloader.Win32.Apher. Presently
there have already been several registered reports of infection.
The Trojan is sent out by an anonymous evildoer using an anonymous
e-mail address from a public access e-mail service. The messages
themselves have a spoofed address showing the sender as
info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx The infected message has the following attributes:
________________________________
From: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Protect Your NetWare with Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Attachment: AAprices.exe
Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer,
announces the official release of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 4.0. "We are
pleased to present the latest version of our anti-virus product. The
unique technology, updated design, and perfected administering system
integrated into Kaspersky Anti-Virus 4.0 is the result of many years of
work dedicated to improving the ease of working with the program and
increasing computer defense reliability," said Natalya Kaspersky,
Kaspersky Labs CEO. The new Kaspersky Anti-Virus version (Personal Pro,
Personal, Lite) fully supports the Microsoft Windows XP operating
system. Amongst this versions latest innovations are: a complete user
interface upgrade corresponding to Tree Chart technology; perfected
system installation that allows for the saving the configuration of
previously installed versions, and a quarantine feature for isolating
infected and suspicious objects; expanded treatment of infected archived
files; an added function for the treatment of Microsoft Outlook Express
and objects upon system start up and also a memory scanning of active
applications; and simplified operating features for disk recovery.
Best regards,
If you have any questions
please call
+1(866) 7280-290
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If the attached file is accidentally opened "Apher" automatically
initiates a connection with a remote web site. From this site a utility
enabling the control of the virus "Backdoor.Death.25" is loaded on the
infected machine. In turn, this program permits the evildoer to
clandestinely manage an infected computer, to view and send out
confidential information, and create, copy and delete files in addition
to much more.
The defense against "Apher" has already been added to the Kaspersky
Anti-Virus database.
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2. How to subscribe/unsubscribe
If you would like to subscribe to other Kaspersky Lab news blocks or
to unsubscribe from this news block, you can do so by visiting
http://www.kaspersky.com/subscribenow.html
If you experience any problems with this procedure, please contact us at:
news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Best of Luck,
Kaspersky Lab News Agent
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10 Geroyev Panfilovtcev St., Moscow, 125363, Russia
Telephone./Facsimile: +7 (095) 948 43 31
WWW: http://www.kaspersky.com, http://www.viruslist.com
FTP: ftp://ftp.kasperskylab.ru
E-mail: info@xxxxxx
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