The new trojan
The most active Trojan spreads in the U.S. state of Kansas. The company Dr. Web found a new malicious program that replaces the search queries. In addition, the Trojan also redirect users to malicious sites.
Once the virus gets on your computer, it creates a copy of itself in the folder% APPDATA% and making some changes to that part of the registry of Windows, which is responsible for the startup applications. Later the Trojans built into all running processes.
“If the Trojan to penetrate a browser process to Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Maxton, Chrome, Safari, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape and Avant, it intercepts function WSPSend, WSPRecv and WSPCloseSocket”, – stated in the notice of experts from Dr. Web . (more…)
Virus: Trojan.Winlock.7372
Flashback is an example of malicious software that allows cyber criminals can steal passwords and other sensitive information from the infected computer. The system can be compromised when visiting malicious Web sites. Said Trojan was the first large-scale real threat faced by owners of “Poppy.” Despite the fact that the application uses a vulnerability in the Java, and not in OS X, in 98% of his victims were just Mac-system.