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MSRT September ’12 – Medfos, hijacking your daily search

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Sep

2012

In this month’s Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release, we add Win32/Medfos. This is a fairly new family, but it is continuously gaining big detection numbers around the world, especially in the United States. The initial Win32/Medfos infection is usually a downloader component that is distributed in different ways; for example, by visiting a […]

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MSRT August ’12 – What’s the buzz with Bafruz?

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Aug

2012

For this month’s Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release, we will include two families: Win32/Matsnu and Win32/Bafruz. Our focus for this blog will be Bafruz, which is a multi-component backdoor that creates a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network of infected computers (using C&C, for instance), and includes a nasty list of payloads, as well as unique means […]

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Cleaning out Cleaman

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Jul

2012

We had included Win32/Kuluoz and Win32/Cleaman in the June edition of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). In this blog post we will discuss Win32/Cleaman – a family that belongs to the category of “web redirector”. Win32/Cleaman is a multi-component trojan with the capability to redirect web search queries. It is usually distributed via […]

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