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Sunbelt Sunbelt

Region, south and southwestern U.S. It is characterized by a warm climate, rapid population growth since 1970, and relatively conservative voting patterns. Comprising 15 states, it extends from Virginia and Florida in the southeast through Nevada in the southwest,
 System Software, and enterprise security solutions, has issued an immediate security fix to thwart a newly identified spyware Software that sends information about your Web surfing habits to its Web site. Often quickly installed in your computer in combination with a free download you selected from the Web, spyware transmits information in the background as you move around the Web.  keylogger uncovered Uncovered may refer to:
  • something "not covered"
  • Uncovered (Sirsy)
 by Sunbelt's Research Team. The spyware keylogger, named Srv.SSA-KeyLogger, is a backdoor See trapdoor.  programme that, among other things, secretly steals data from users' internet sessions, including logins and passwords from online banking sessions, ebay, PayPal and other programmes that use html forms to collect personal information. It is a new variant variant /var·i·ant/ (var´e-ant)
1. something that differs in some characteristic from the class to which it belongs.

2. exhibiting such variation.


var·i·ant
adj.
 of a family of existing Trojans generally known as Dumaru or Nibu. This infokeylogger was identified as a result of one of Sunbelt's lead spyware researcher's earlier discovery of a massive online identity theft ring, in which thousands of unsuspecting computer users' personal data had been compromised. To protect users from this harmful keylogger, new definitions are being added for the company's CounterSpy and CounterSpy Enterprise anti-spyware products. Updates to the consumer edition of CounterSpy are available immediately, while customers of the enterprise edition will receive updates shortly upon completion of platform testing by Sunbelt. Sunbelt is sharing data on the keylogger with other major security companies to ensure the industry has the information necessary to react rapidly to this threat. Sunbelt is offering a free detection and removal tool on its website www.sunbeltsoftware.com specifically targeted at this keylogger. As an alternative, users can immediately download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer.  the two week trial version of CounterSpy, which provides free scanning and reinediation for this keylogger and a large number of other spyware threats.

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Title Annotation:Security News
Publication:Software World
Date:Sep 1, 2005
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