OT: New Trojan

[Terry Pinnell]

Anyone come across this potentially nasty one? Haven't time right now,
but will check later whether SpyBot has it in its register yet.

Trojan holds PC files for ransom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4580389.stm
"A unique new kind of malicious threat which locks up files on a PC
then demands money in return for unlocking them has been identified."

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Fri, 27 May 2005 07:45:18 +0100, Terry Pinnell
<terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:

Anyone come across this potentially nasty one? Haven't time right now,
but will check later whether SpyBot has it in its register yet.

Trojan holds PC files for ransom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4580389.stm
"A unique new kind of malicious threat which locks up files on a PC
then demands money in return for unlocking them has been identified."

Sounds like BS to me. Think about it for a moment... how do you
anonymously collect?

...Jim Thompson
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[Pooh Bear]

Terry Pinnell wrote:

Anyone come across this potentially nasty one? Haven't time right now,
but will check later whether SpyBot has it in its register yet.

Trojan holds PC files for ransom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4580389.stm
"A unique new kind of malicious threat which locks up files on a PC
then demands money in return for unlocking them has been identified."

" It exploits a known vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE).
"

Nothing new there then ! lol

Graham

 

[Ross Herbert]

On Fri, 27 May 2005 07:45:18 +0100, Terry Pinnell
<terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:

Anyone come across this potentially nasty one? Haven't time right now,
but will check later whether SpyBot has it in its register yet.

Trojan holds PC files for ransom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4580389.stm
"A unique new kind of malicious threat which locks up files on a PC
then demands money in return for unlocking them has been identified."

It is a known trojan

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.pgpcoder.html

 

[Frithiof Andreas Jensen]

"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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Anyone come across this potentially nasty one?

Yeah - in like 1990(ish). So it's taken them "Nigerians" 15 years to port
this sucker to Windows!

 

[Terry Given]

Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote:

"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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Anyone come across this potentially nasty one?


Yeah - in like 1990(ish). So it's taken them "Nigerians" 15 years to port
this sucker to Windows!

ROTFLMAO! too busy with typewriter technology....

Cheers
Terry

 

[Rich Grise]

On Fri, 27 May 2005 07:37:07 +0000, Ross Herbert wrote:

On Fri, 27 May 2005 07:45:18 +0100, Terry Pinnell
terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:

Anyone come across this potentially nasty one? Haven't time right now,
but will check later whether SpyBot has it in its register yet.

Trojan holds PC files for ransom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4580389.stm
"A unique new kind of malicious threat which locks up files on a PC
then demands money in return for unlocking them has been identified."

It is a known trojan

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.pgpcoder.html

From that website:
"Creates the file ATTENTION!!!.txt in every folder in which it encoded a
file. The textfile contains the following:

Some files are coded.
To buy decoder mail: [user]@yahoo.com
with subject: PGPcoder 000000000032
"

Ya think maybe somebody should call Yahoo?

Thanks,
Rich