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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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MSRT December: Win32/Helompy

14

Dec

2011

The December 2011 edition of the MSRT includes detection and clean-up for the Win32/Helompy Family. Helompy is a worm that propagates by copying itself to the root of removable drives, and its main payload is to record account credentials and login information and send them to a remote server, where the attacker could retrieve them […]

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Poison and EyeStye, by the numbers

02

Nov

2011

The latest MSRT release included coverage for two more malware families, one being Win32/EyeStye, which we discussed earlier this month, and the other being Win32/Poison. In tandem with our efforts to provide an antidote to the scourge of Win32/Poison infections via the MSRT, we’ve also today published a detailed MMPC Threat Report on the same […]

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