Malware moves up, goes commercial

Peter Pollack: Engineers at Panda Software, while in the process of researching a new trojan, uncovered evidence this week that led them to a web site touting custom-built viruses for sale. For the low, low price of only US$990, a user gets his or her own pet trojan horse, complete with tech support. If the file is discovered-as this current model was-the designer provides a guarantee to alter it so that it may continue to avoid detection in the face of updated antivirus software.

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