New Trojans Target Microsoft Windows

Filed in: Microsoft, Security — January 13th, 2005

Security software supplier Panda Software has reported the appearance of two new Trojans which take advantage of the digital rights management protection offered by new versions of Microsoft’s Windows Media Player.

The Trj/WmvDownloader.A and Trj/WmvDownloader.B Trojans are spreading across P2P networks, such as Kazaa and eMule, in video files, causing users to inadvertently download adware, spyware and viruses.

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  • http://www.orica.com/ ahkiong

    Why virus/torjan creator keep targetting Micr0s0ft ? It seems that less hack3r are targetting open source OS such as Linux or FreeBSD. I guess using open source OS is far more secure than using Micr0s0ft created software..do you agree guys ?

  • http://www.orica.com ahkiong

    Why virus/torjan creator keep targetting Micr0s0ft ? It seems that less hack3r are targetting open source OS such as Linux or FreeBSD. I guess using open source OS is far more secure than using Micr0s0ft created software..do you agree guys ?

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