Doctor Web’s virus analysts discovered a new Trojan.Winlock modification threatening residents of Arab countries. Trojans horses of this family are widely known in Russia since 2010. Later, Trojan.Winlocks targetting users in other countries appeared. In particular, the recently discovered Trojan.Winlock.5490, operates in systems with French set as the default language. Recent months saw many versions […]
The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web warns Internet users of the new malignant program that blocks access to Windows. This Trojan horse has been dubbed Trojan.Winlock.5490. The malicious application poses a danger to systems running Microsoft Windows with French locale set as default system language.Otherwise Trojan.Winlock.5490, written in C, won’t run in a system with […]
Various Trojan-horses disrupting normal operation of Windows emerge rather regularly. Doctor Web-the leading Russian anti-virus vendor-warns users of a new Trojan horse of this type that targets Windows users worldwide and aims at extorting their credit card information. The first instances of infection by Trojan.Winlocks were registered in 2007. The period from November 2009 till […]
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