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Pramro and Sality – two PEs in a pod

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Feb

2012

?The second of the families added to the February release of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is Win32/Pramro. Win32/Pramro is a family of trojans that can act as a SOCKS proxy on an infected computer. In this case, this proxy may be used to relay spam and HTTP traffic. Detection was first added […]

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Extracting the fare

15

Feb

2012

When malware is found lurking on a system, quite often it isn’t acting alone. Once malware distributors have control of a system, they will do everything they can to compromise the machine and the user for maximum gain — for instance, hijacking a browser’s search results, or using rogue security software to extract payments from affected […]

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January ’12 MSRT: Win32/Sefnit

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Jan

2012

The January 2012 edition of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) includes detection and removal of the Win32/Sefnit family of trojans. This trojan family moderates and redirects web browser search engine results for Bing, Yahoo! and Google. The earliest reported variant in this family can be traced back to August 2010. The installation mechanism […]

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