‘Make Love, Not Spam’ virus
p2pnet.net News:- Virus writers are taking advantage of the Lycos Europe Make Love, Not Spam, anti-junk mail campaign.
A fake of the now famous Lycos screensaver wants to drop Perfect Keylogger components to infected hard drives, says F-Secure.
Perfect Keylogger is a spy tool that monitors keys a user presses and to saves the data to a file and, says F-Secure, it looks like this:
Subject: Be the first to fight spam with Lycos screen saver
Attachment: Lycos screensaver to fight spam.zip
But the file isn’t makelovenotspam. Rather, it’s an RAR SFX archive with the keylogger inside.
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See:-
anti-junk mail – Lycos halts anti-Spam war, p2pnet, December 6, 2004
Perfect Keylogger – F-Secure Virus Descriptions : TrojanDropper.FakeSpamFighter, F-Secure, December 6, 2004
December 9th, 2004 at 3:54 am
The weekest part of any security is usually the user.
If you can convince the user to do something incredibly stupid you can compromise any systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(computer_security)