Storm Trojan breaking records - don't open the .zip

Filed in archive Spam News on April 16, 2007

First - I remind you here and now that you should never ever open attachments or click through on links in emails if you are not expecting such a mail. Even if it seems to be from a friend.

Now, if you have noticed an increase of traffic to your spam folder, know that Strom Trojan is responsible for it. Security experts report a fifty times bigger spam load than usual worldwide. Computerworld writes:

"The malicious spam, Swidler went on, tries to convince users that their computers are already infected with malware and now part of a botnet. "They're telling people that their e-mail access is about to be cut off, and that they have to install this patch to continue using [e-mail]."

Moreover, the Computer security illiterate users are pushed to unzip the attached file, with the password cleverly provided in the mail, which not only installs a Storm Trojan, but also disables the security software, hides the Trojan with a rootkit, rips any sensitive data from the computer and starts using it as a zombie spam bot. Nice.

For last, let me tell you that I'm feeling a bit overprotected right now. I didn't receive even one instance of this Storm Trojan spam, so it looks like my anti-spam filters are working double time. But, they do tend to let through the innocent, laughable, buy v1@gr@ spams, which is kind of weird.