http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/trojan/ en-us Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:49:01 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035772/posts The exact date when the Greeks used the Trojan horse to raze the city of Troy has been pinpointed for the first time using an eclipse mentioned in the stories of Homer, it was claimed today. # The truth about an epic tale of love, war and greed Scientists have calculated that the horse was used in 1188 BC, ten years before Homer in his Odyssey describes the return of a warrior to his wife on the day the "sun is blotted out of the sky". The legend of the fall of Troy is mentioned in Virgil and Homer's poems... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035772/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:49:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2028662/posts Incredible Message About my （Dr. Don Boys） Islam Book from a Muslim Nation! How this brother got my book on Islam I donÂ’t know. He must have purchased it while visiting in another country or someone sent it to him. He says he would be killed by followers of that peaceful religion of Islam if it were known that he had my book! What a way to live! Following is his email except for his name and country. I got to read some parts of your book Islam: America 's Trojan Horse. I would like to mention that it is... Preacher Helps http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2028662/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:46:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2001215/posts A BusinessWeek probe of rising attacks on America's most sensitive computer networks uncovers startling security gaps The e-mail message addressed to a Booz Allen Hamilton executive was mundane—a shopping list sent over by the Pentagon of weaponry India wanted to buy. But the missive turned out to be a brilliant fake. Lurking beneath the description of aircraft, engines, and radar equipment was an insidious piece of computer code known as "Poison Ivy" designed to suck sensitive data out of the $4 billion consulting firm's computer network. The Pentagon hadn't sent the e-mail at all. Its origin is unknown, but the... BusinessWeek Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2001215/posts#comment Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:38:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1966206/posts Ok, Daughter's laptop with an up to date anti-virus program and firewall has gotten infected with a worm called worm.win32.netsky. Can't find a removal program for this bugger and the scans haven't found or removed it. She was going to various School District web sites to apply for a teaching job when it happened It loaded on it's own new desktop icons, and diabled remove program from the task bar along with Ctl-Alt-Del. Anyone out there got ideas? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1966206/posts#comment Thu, 7 Feb 2008 02:12:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1956089/posts Digital photo frames containing malware have been found, heads up! http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3807 http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3787 self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1956089/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:48:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972890/posts An insidious computer virus recently discovered on digital photo frames has been identified as a powerful new Trojan Horse from China that collects passwords for online games - and its designers might have larger targets in mind. "It is a nasty worm that has a great deal of intelligence," said Brian Grayek, who heads product development at Computer Associates, a security vendor that analyzed the Trojan Horse. The virus, which Computer Associates calls Mocmex, recognizes and blocks antivirus protection from more than 100 security vendors, as well as the security and firewall built into Microsoft Windows. It downloads files from... SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972890/posts#comment Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:25:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951883/posts A former business associate of the failed marketing agency that attempted to secure Reggie Bush as a client told Yahoo! Sports he spoke directly to Bush about the company's business plan before the running back completed his junior season at the University of Southern California. Such an action would have violated NCAA rules and is the latest in a series of facts uncovered in a Yahoo! Sports investigation that indicate Bush and his family had an improper relationship with New Era Sports & Entertainment. Ben Delanoy, now CEO of Next Level Sports Marketing, said Bush indicated he would be part... Yahoo Sports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951883/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:02:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945454/posts Malicious JavaScript pushes Trojan Virus writers are exploiting morbid curiosity about the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's to spread malware. Surfers searching for video footage of the suicide attack that killed Bhutto and at least 21 others on Thursday are liable to find malware posing as video clips that attempts to trick users into running malign ActiveX controls. The malicious downloaded file is detected by Symantec as the Emcodec-Trojan. The Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945454/posts#comment Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:23:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919873/posts SAN FRANCISCO — In a backhanded compliment to Apple Inc., online criminals are apparently so impressed with its scorching sales they are sending Macintosh computers an attack typically aimed at machines running Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Windows operating system. Symantec Corp. researchers said the Web sites serving up the new attack also deploy a Windows version. "For a while Mac users have enjoyed the benefits of being a small enough population that hackers didn't go after them directly _ that's obviously now changing," said Ben Greenbaum, senior research manager at Symantec Security Response. Lynn Fox, an Apple spokeswoman, said the Cupertino-based... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919873/posts#comment Fri, 2 Nov 2007 03:38:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853078/posts Multi-Middleman 'Mpack' Attacks Use Google AdWords to Lure Victims By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews June 19, 2007, 11:46 AM One of Russia's fastest growing markets, and quite possibly a contributor to stabilizing that country's fickle economy, is cut-rate, self-deploying Trojan horse packages. As malware writers there have discovered, rather than baiting and waiting for victims to fall into their traps at random, so that they carry out DoS and identity theft attacks without knowing they're doing so, would-be victims worldwide will gladly pay for the privilege of knowingly carrying out those same attacks. "In terms of social engineering," writes... BetaNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853078/posts#comment Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:11:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839895/posts A new variant of the Russian Trojan Gozi, armed with keylogging functionality, is making the rounds again. What makes this time different is that the Trojan can scramble itself to avoid detection by your anti-virus software. The Trojan is believed to have been spreading since April 17. Like the original, which was discovered earlier in 2007, the new version of Gozi steals data from encrypted SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) streams. The latest variant was uncovered May 7 by Don Jackson, a security researcher at SecureWorks in Atlanta. Comments Posted by Steve 3:15 PM (CDT) HardOCP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839895/posts#comment Fri, 25 May 2007 21:34:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1837665/posts I have discovered a Win32:Agent trojan resident in a file on my C: drive. It is located in my Thunderbird email files section. Try as I may, I cannot seem to delete this. It appears to be growing in size. I have read a lot about this one and they refer to it as a "sleeper" trojan. How can I remove this trojan? I run Firefox, Thunderbird as email client, XP Pro, Avast & AVG 7.5 Internet Security System, Zone Alarm Pro, along with Spy Bot S&D and Spyware Blaster.Can anyone help with this?Thanks n/a http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1837665/posts#comment Tue, 22 May 2007 10:44:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829950/posts Online criminals are using Windows registration pages as new way to fool consumers into divugling confidential information, researchers with Symantec have noticed. The security firm said that it has spotted a new trojan that steals credit card information by posing as an anti-piracy control for Windows XP. The phishing trojan mimicks the behavior of Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy software, which tracks down pirated copies of the operating system. On startup, the trojan produces a window informing the user that their copy of Windows has been activated by another user. In order to "re-activate" Windows, the software asks the... computing http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829950/posts#comment Tue, 8 May 2007 02:17:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816869/posts Thursday likely marked the largest proliferation of e-mail virus attacks in more than a year, according to security company Postini. Postini said that two variations of the Storm Worm virus, which originally spread across the Internet in January, have quickly driven global virus levels 60 times higher than their daily average. E-mail users should be on alert for messages with "love"-related subject lines and an executable attachment that would contain a Trojan virus, as well as messages with "Worm Alert!" subject lines that contained a .zip file full of malicious code. Postini, which is based in San Carlos, Calif., says... ZDNet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816869/posts#comment Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:31:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789888/posts IT security and control firm Sophos is welcoming news that a US man has pleaded guilty to charges of writing and distributing a Trojan horse designed to steal usernames and passwords from computer users. "The Trojan has been the key development in cybercrime in recent years - hackers use them to steal info and money from unsuspecting internet users" Graham Cluley, Sophos Richard C Honour, 31, faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 after admitting releasing malware that infected users of DarkMyst, an IRC chatroom popular with players of online role-playing games. Honour,... Irish Dev News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789888/posts#comment Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:43:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1781195/posts Troy Hurtubise is facing eviction after his Trojan invention flopped.Troy Hurtubise really put everything he had into his bulletproof combat suit. He spent two years and tens of thousands of dollars developing the Trojan, hoping to sell it to the Canadian or American armed forces, or to another friendly government. Now he's broke. Last month, he promised the Trojan would give soldiers in the field affordable, lightweight protection from bullets and bombs alike. He had worked all kinds of extras into the body armour: a ventilation system and multiple lights in the helmet, pepper spray that could shoot from the... Hamilton Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1781195/posts#comment Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:37:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1697324/posts I have a trojan, do not know how I picked it up: intcodec-v6.667.exe and intcodec-v6.400.exe The WGA on this WinXP pro was made invalid, and now I can't DL updates for Norton Virus either. Those are seperate issues. Immediate need is to remove this virus, only ref I got on the net was here http://fileinfo.prevx.com/adware/qq2b5d34188554-INTC22293613/INTCODEC-V6.766%5B1%5D.EXE.html but I do not know anything about prevx.com or the free removal tool for this trojan. Does anyone know if prevx is legit, and does anyone know of any other ways to remove this trojan? Thanks for the help. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1697324/posts#comment Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:51:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1680226/posts Websense raises the alarm about a phishing Trojan that uses a new technique to cloak its activity. The Web security company said that the Trojan, which installs itself as an Internet Explorer helper object, waits for the user to enter information in specific Web site forms -- particularly online banking sites -- then zaps the stolen data back to the attacker. What's unique about the new Trojan, said Websense, is that it delivers that data via ICMP packets. Keylogging Trojans usually transmit purloined usernames and passwords via e-mail or a HTTP POST command. Both can be easily spotted. "Instead, this... ITNews.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1680226/posts#comment Wed, 9 Aug 2006 02:14:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672528/posts An identity-stealing keylogger that disguises itself as a Firefox extension and installs silently in the background was discovered Tuesday by security vendor McAfee. According to the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, the "FormSpy" Trojan horse monitors mouse movements and key presses to steal online banking or credit card usernames and passwords, other login information, and URLs typed into Firefox, the popular open-source browser. Another component of the Trojan sniffs out passwords from ICQ and FTP sessions, and IMAP and POP3 traffic, said McAfee. All collected information is sent to an IP address hard-coded into the Trojan. The scam starts with spam... TechWeb http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672528/posts#comment Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:26:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1650110/posts New Trojan asteroid hints at huge Neptunian cloud 19:00 15 June 2006 NewScientist.com news service Kelly YoungThe four known Neptune Trojans are shown in their position 60 degrees ahead of Neptune. The known clusters of Trojan asteroids on either side of Jupiter are also shown (Illustration: Scott Sheppard) A newly discovered asteroid in Neptune's orbit indicates the existence of a much larger, but as-yet-unseen, cloud of rocks in that region. The asteroids in Neptune's orbit might even outnumber those in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the new research suggests." The asteroid was discovered by Scott Sheppard of... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1650110/posts#comment Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:26:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637927/posts VIENNA - The night air in Vienna has finally turned warm, filling the city's trams with visitors. On the Ringstrasse, tourists take in the city, pointing out the City Hall and the parliament. ADVERTISEMENT "Did you see that one girl - so young! And wearing a veil," a woman clucks in lightly accented English, staring out the window of tram D. "They will form a separate culture." The sentiment isn't isolated. Earlier this month, Austria's Interior Minister Liese Prokop announced that 45 percent of Muslim immigrants were "unintegratable," and suggested that those people should "choose another country." In the Netherlands,... chritian science monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637927/posts#comment Thu, 25 May 2006 04:39:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623383/posts A new kind of malware circulating on the Internet freezes a computer and then asks for a ransom paid through the Western Union Holdings money transfer service. A sample of the Trojan horse virus was sent to Sophos, a security vendor, said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant. The malware, which Sophos named Troj/Ransom-A, is one of only a few viruses so far that have asked for a ransom in exchange for releasing control of a computer, Cluley said. The new Trojan falls into a class of viruses described as "ransomware." The schemes had been seen in Russia, but the first... yahoo news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623383/posts#comment Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:40:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609313/posts Excerpt - LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — In a rare discussion on the severity of the Windows malware scourge, a Microsoft security official said businesses should consider investing in an automated process to wipe hard drives and reinstall operating systems as a practical way to recover from malware infestation. "When you are dealing with rootkits and some advanced spyware programs, the only solution is to rebuild from scratch. In some cases, there really is no way to recover without nuking the systems from orbit," Mike Danseglio, program manager in the Security Solutions group at Microsoft, said in a presentation at... FoxNews.com (Excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609313/posts#comment Wed, 5 Apr 2006 01:41:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606877/posts This Worm Is Nasty, Brutish, And Sneaky As a data security specialist, Jeremy Pickett sees all kinds of digital tricks. So on Mar. 20, when he was tracing the origins of a computer worm that had been blocked the night before from entering a client's computer network, Pickett wasn't too surprised that it tried to connect with four sleazy Web sites, most of them, he believes, in Russia. Or that it then tried to load victims' PCs with as many as 30 new pieces of "malware," ranging from spam programs to those that automatically dial in to expensive phone-sex services.... Business week http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606877/posts#comment Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:05:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1604381/posts A dangerous new exploit in Internet Explorer could put PCs and data at risk, Microsoft has admitted. The flaw, for which code has already been published on the internet, could be exploited to set an email-borne virus free on the unsuspecting public. Potential viruses could come as an attachment that conceals the code, or could possibly redirect users to a site that will unleash the code on the user's machine, leaving the computer open to remote attack. Once the PC is being controlled by a malicious user, it can then be used to launch attacks on other PCs. Even supposedly... theregister.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1604381/posts#comment Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:58:48 GMT