Microsoft AntiSpyware Targeted by Malware
This just in off the bugtraq security mailing list, by ma7moud:
“This appears to be the first attempt yet by any piece of malware to disable Microsoft AntiSpyware,” Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos, said in a statement. “As Microsoft’s product creeps out of beta and is adopted more by the home user market, we can expect to see more attempts by Trojan horses, viruses and worms to undermine its effectiveness.” Like many other Trojans, Bankash attempts to steal passwords and online banking details from Windows users, Sophos said in an advisory. The program targets users of U.K. online banks such as Barclays, Cahoot, Halifax, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Nationwide, NatWest and Smile.
- http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojbankasha.html
- http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5569429.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/09/banking_trojan/
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Smitfraud is definelty bad stuff. The first time I came across this I had a ton of problems removing it. Now whenever I run into this I do a system restore first then run the free smitfraudfix tool and then run a full scan with Spyware Doctor. If you have Smitfraud I can gurantee you are infected with other threats as well and that is way you need to use other software besides just the smitfraud fix tool.