October 26th, 2006
its my box now!
Spam Trojan Installs Own Anti-Virus Scanner
The Trojan, which uses peer-to-peer technology to send commands to hijacked computers, has been fitted with its own anti-virus scanner—a level of complexity and sophistication that rivals some commercial software.
At start-up, the Trojan requests and loads a DLL from the author’s command-and-control server.
This then downloads a pirated copy of Kaspersky [...]
