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| New Trojan Threatens Windows XP SP 2 |
| from the unplug-your-computer-for-protection dept. |
| posted by michael on Friday December 31, @08:50 (Windows) |
| http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/31/1323218 |
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lightdarkness writes "Symantec is reporting about a [0]new virus called
Phel (Anagram of 'help') which is a Trojan which spreads via a HTML file.
All the user needs to do is go to the page, and it [1]takes advantage of
the vulnerability in the IE Help control component files. This allows the
attacker to download malicious programs on to the machine. Worst part is,
this is one of the exploits that even effects SP2. Microsoft is said to
be working to stop the spread, and to release a patch." The exploit is
apparently [2]not the same as the help file problems disclosed last week.
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/12/31/1323218
Links:
0. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.phel.a.html
1. http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,98636,00.html
2. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/25/1433236&tid=172