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We’ve got our eye on Eyestye

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Jul

2012

Back in October 2011, we began to remove Eyestye variants using the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) in an effort to prevent the proliferation of this botnet. Today, we published a detailed MMPC Threat Report on this family. The report provides an in-depth analysis of how Win32/EyeStye works and the telemetry we have on its […]

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MSRT June ’12 – cleanup on aisle one

13

Jun

2012

In the June ’12 installment of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), we take on two threat families – Win32/Kuluoz and Win32/Cleaman. This post includes information about Kuluoz as we’ll discuss Cleaman later this month. Win32/Kuluoz is a multi-component trojan family that that attempts to steal passwords that are stored in certain applications, and […]

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MSRT March: Three Hioles in one

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Mar

2012

In a previous post, we discussed Win32/Dorkbot, one of the major threat families included in the March 2012 release of MSRT. In this post, we discuss the other inclusions, Win32/Hioles, Win32/Pluzoks and Win32/Yeltminky.Win32/HiolesSimilar to last month’s focus on Win32/Pramro, Win32/Hioles is another trojan that resides on the computer and functions as a proxy server. The […]

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