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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master

NRT-0224 MPack Trojan Hidden in "Yes&No" animated video:

Security researchers are warning users that a malware writer is infecting computers by hiding a Trojan horse inside an animated video that is being emailed around the world. The Troj/Agent-FWO Trojan plays the popular "Yes & No" Shockwave video after embedding itself on users' computers and downloading other pieces of malicious code, according to an advisory from Sophos. The Trojan drops its malicious payload in the Windows System folder, according to Sophos, and is designed to create registry entries to run on the startup. It also has the ability to inject code into system processes to hide itself. First posted on the internet by Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto in 2001, the video has reportedly been viewed by hundreds of thousands of peopler over the years.

(www.informationweek.com 27JUN07)

Last Modified: Saturday, 21-Jul-2007 11:07:26 EDT