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Trojan Vundo: Disaster on the Rise

Monday, October 12th, 2009

If the virus? SA? the theree out there that deserves the right to be called a disaster of 2008, then trojan Vundo is definitely a candidate for appointment. Its effect on the web has not yet been analyzed, but it is certainly enormous. The number of infected computers quickly surpassed one million? S. of? APC partially spread like forest fires can be represented as different paths Vundo sneak into the system. ? D? That because of common antivirus protection often fails to detect the threat. Among the vulnerabilities of popular Windows-based PC, the following are the most widely exploited by Trojan Vundo and its clones: Transfers from the central system for satellite shareware programs from dangerous sites (like the stream? Of? A network P2P, LimeWire, eMule, etc..) Malicious code is added to the installation of the executable files of the antivirus software? of? ie products, parental control, etc.. People – and distributed via the Web sites visited by millions of ordinary people. It is important to note that contamination of a legit executable program is unlikely to be identified as hazardous. Whenever you start executing the file, for example, double-click it, infection takes place immediately. Parts of the Vundo virus are placed in different folders and on the Windows registry with autorun keys; On? SA? theree has documented the vulnerability of the installation of Java. Although the problem is solved by an update released by Java developers, there are many computers with outdated Java; The Windows operating system itself is vulnerable to Vundo which can exploit security breeches. Although Microsoft has released the fields for very different reasons? t? haven