New Trojan horse sends mobile phone spam.Sophos have identified a new Trojan horse See Trojan. Trojan Horse hollow horse concealed soldiers, enabling them to enter and capture Troy. [Gk. Myth.: Iliad] See : Deceit (application, security) Trojan horse which attempts to send spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). messages to mobile phone users. The Delf-RA Trojan horse (Troj/Delf-HA) infects PCs then contacts a Russian website to download instructions on which spam campaign to run. It can plague owners of mobile phones by sending them unsolicited junk SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. text messages. The Trojan horse sends spam SMS messages SMS message SMS n → (message m) SMS m by using the 'Send a text message' facility found on the websites of several Russian mobile phone network providers. Although only a small number of instances of the Trojan horse have been sighted so far, Sophos recommends that companies protect their email gateways with a consolidated solution to thwart the virus and spam threats as well as secure their desktops and servers with automatically updated anti-virus protection. Further information about Troj/Delf-RA can be found at: http:www.sophos.com /virusinfo/analyses/trojdelfha.html |
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