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Collateral Damage (continued)

Friday, August 7, 2009 at 6:36am by Francois Paget
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While Dmitri Alperovitch wrote his blog entry about the recent DDoS attack against Twitter and some other platforms hosting accounts of a pro-Georgian blogger nicknamed cyxymu, I browsed the Internet, searching for malicious websites taking advantage of this topic.

In second place in my google search request, I was attracted by a link proposing to add the blogger to my friends. This link was a lure redirecting me on a site promoting a fake anti-virus product.
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Once again, we did not have to wait long before encountering such sites taking advantage of the news.

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  • Jason August 9, 2009 7:08PM

    We have a malicious program that originates with an autorun.inf and an exe that derives it’s name from the user (i.e. Joe User.exe). The autorun also directs to shell32.dll. When infected, it runs the exact Windows Security Alert spoof in your screen shot. To date the only virus scanner I’ve found to identify it is F-prot, which identifies it as W32/VBTrojan.6!Maximus but doesn’t clean it.

    Do you have something available to eradicate this? I have searched the past two days with no luck.

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