"Webber" turns innocent computers into spam machines.Kaspersky Labs Kaspersky Lab is a computer security company, co-founded by Natalia Kaspersky and Eugene Kaspersky in 1997, offering antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, and anti-intrusion products. reports the mass mailing of the new trojan program 'Webber' (aka "Heloc") and has already logged numerous registered reports of encounters with this malicious program. Webber does its harm by installing a proxy server Also called a "proxy," it is a computer system or router that breaks the connection between sender and receiver. Functioning as a relay between client and server, proxy servers are used to help prevent an attacker from invading the private network. by which evildoers can send out any data held on infected machines. Comment: In essence, we have a situation involving the creation of an illegal, extended network that is being exploited by hackers to mass mail spare using the resources of victim computers, say Kaspersky. What is most troublesome is that this network can also be abused to achieve virtually any goal, including conducting hacker A person who writes programs in assembly language or in system-level languages, such as C. The term often refers to any programmer, but its true meaning is someone with a strong technical background who is "hacking away" at the bits and bytes. attacks on a global scale and DDos attacks on the Web resources of large corporations or government institutions. Webber was spread over the Interact via a mass mailing conducted on July 16, 2003. The message containing Webber has the following subject line: "Re: Your credit application", and a file attachment See e-mail attachment. named "web.da.us.citi.heloc.pif". This file name is similar to a Web address and therefore can at times confuse users and lead them to execute the infected file. Once run, Webber clandestinely downloads its additional components from a remote Web-server and installs them on the now infected computer. Collateral damage collateral damage Surgery A popular term for any undesired but unavoidable co-morbidity associated with a therapy–eg, chemotherapy-induced CD to the BM and GI tract as a side effect of destroying tumor cells attributed to this trojan includes the sending of a list of passwords dug out of a victim machine's cache memory to its 'master' (the hacker controlling its actions). The defence against this malicious program has already been added to the Kaspersky Anti-Virus Kaspersky Anti-Virus (Russian: Антивирус Касперского; formerly known as AntiViral Toolkit Pro) is an antivirus program developed by Kaspersky Lab. database. www.kaspersky.com |
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