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Old 20-01-2007, 12:30 PM   #1
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Trojan warning

I got this email from Symantec this morning...

"As of January 19, 2007, Symantec Security Response is advising users to be cautious of any unsolicited email which contains attachments that claim to be legitimate or interesting, due to a recent trojan horse named Trojan.Peacomm. The Trojan horse arrives as an attachment to an email purporting to contain a video of one of several different recent news stories. The attachment may be one of the following: FullVideo.exe, FullStory.exe, Video.exe, ReadMore.exe, FullClip.exe.

The attachment is actually a trojan horse that will install itself on the system and download other malicious programs from various computers on the Internet. The attachment and the trojan horse it contains will be detected as Trojan.Peacomm. Other malicious programs that are commonly downloaded by this threat include Trojan.Abwiz.F and W32.Mixor.Q@mm.

Once installed and running, this threat attempts to establish communication with other infected systems on the Internet via a custom peer-to-peer network. This network is used as the distribution source from which the other malicious programs are downloaded. "
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Old 20-01-2007, 12:43 PM   #2
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http://www.symantec.com/security_res...011917-1403-99
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Old 20-01-2007, 05:45 PM   #3
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I have been sent 2 of these already,both with a headline about terrorism,fortunately i deleted both of them before downloading
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Old 20-01-2007, 07:55 PM   #4
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I've had about a dozen. The subject lines are clever and make it tempting to click on the attachment. I reckon that a lot of people will be cuaght by it!
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Old 20-01-2007, 08:24 PM   #5
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Old 23-01-2007, 11:44 AM   #6
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I got this email from Symantec this morning. They are clearly taking this threat seriously.

Protection Update
Today Symantec Security Response raised the risk level of Trojan.Peacomm to a category 3 threat, due to the speed and volume in which it is being aggressively spammed across the Internet.

The Trojan, which was first spotted January 17, 2007 has been raised to a higher category following a sustained increase in new versions of the attack which appeared over the weekend as the malware author responded to improvements in protection made by security companies by adjusting his tactics.

Trojan.Peacomm is one of a number of spamming Trojan horse programs Symantec has seen lately that appear to originate from Russia and are clearly aimed at making money for the author by pumping up penny stocks. The victim is enticed through social engineering techniques to open an attachment, which typically appears to be a video clip on a recent, newsworthy event.

The email itself will have no message body, but will have one of several subject lines such as "A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and kill again!," "Fidel Castro Dead," "Re: Your Text." For a complete list of subject lines, please visit Symantec.
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I've not used outlook for years now so dunno what it's spam protection is like these days. However, I've been using gmail for a long time and its antispam is pretty damn good - mebbe get 1 mail a month that goes the wrong way.

Also, on the AV front I've ditched Norton. Found some scenarios where it failed, which bearing in mind it's a very heavy programme, I was unimpressed. Have switched to JF's recommendation of AVG and am very impressed.
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Old 23-01-2007, 12:21 PM   #8
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Have switched to JF's recommendation of AVG and am very impressed.
Yeh, Norton is a load on the system. Giz details of AVG... Does it support immediate fixes for threats like this one?
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Did you go for the free version, or commercial version?

If you chose to pay, did you go for the full 'internet security', or just the anti virus?

What's the general thoughts on Microshaft's own firewall within XP?

I think I'm going to upgrade to the commercial version (despite licking my wounds this morning, as I write cheques for my VAT return '&' January 31 Tax return ) , but am not sure if I should be going for the whole hog, or just AV.

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I've not used outlook for years now so dunno what it's spam protection is like these days. However, I've been using gmail for a long time and its antispam is pretty damn good - mebbe get 1 mail a month that goes the wrong way.

Also, on the AV front I've ditched Norton. Found some scenarios where it failed, which bearing in mind it's a very heavy programme, I was unimpressed. Have switched to JF's recommendation of AVG and am very impressed.
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I'm on the free one at the mo. The free AV seems pretty good, but onviously doesn't have the auto anti spyware bit. I keep meaning to go commercial, just haven't got around to it yet.

jw. Yeh, auto downloads updates as often as they're made available, which is often daily.
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Does anyone knowif you can still get the fully free copy of AVG - downloaded the current version the other day and it says i only have 30 days of trial then have to pay?
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When I installed mine the 30 day trial applied to the antispam product only.
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maybe its just for that then - will check, thanks
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Does anyone knowif you can still get the fully free copy of AVG - downloaded the current version the other day and it says i only have 30 days of trial then have to pay?
Looks like they've discountinued the free version. My longstanding "free" versions are now popping up messages to saythat from next month I'll have to pay.
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Gutted, I'll have to spend some money.
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Looks like AVG 7.1 was the one available for "free" and is still supported with free virus defs etc, so ya can still have a free AV solution. I almost certainly have the installer I can distribute if ya want it.
Their anti spyware product is pretty good too (better than ad-aware & spybot IMVHO)

jw - regarding firewalls, how is your home network configured? ie ADSL, NTL, router, hub, wireless etc?
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Old 23-01-2007, 07:21 PM   #17
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jw - regarding firewalls, how is your home network configured? ie ADSL, NTL, router, hub, wireless etc?
BT line>modem>DSL router(wireless + LAN)>LAN to main computer and wireless to laptop.

Norton Anti Virus and Internet Security firewall. Emails on an external site rather than Outlook.

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Oops. I confused your post with JF regarding firewalls.

Basically, anyone who's behind a router that does NAT (Network Address Translation)is behind a firewall. And anything that has multiple machines connected to it almost certainly does that.

Only a machine that is directly exposed to the internet (in this case, the router) is exposed to attack.

The other key one is to bind the wireless router to only accept connections from specific MAC addresses and enforce some decent encryption.
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Buy a router with a firewall built in I am a draytek reseller, you can ban exe etc from getting into your inbox on the router.

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Na, the version that expires shortly, is the V7.1, you need to download V7.5 to continue enjoying the free AV.

you get it from this page: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

I downloaded the full AVG 'Anti-malware' program today, on 30 day trial, so will be paying the 30 bucks next month. can't really see much difference to the free one so far, but assume there must be summat better about it!.

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