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("Security Advisory")
Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master
NRT-0475 Flash Player movie of gymnast is malware:
McAfee researchers report a Flash Player movie ridiculing a Chinese gymnast at the Olympic
Games is actually malware, according to an online news report. As the movie shows a cartoon
and images supporting a free Tibet, it silently drops a keystroke logger and rootkit onto Windows
PCs. This virus is similar to the 'Fribet' Trojan horse identified a week ago that infects
Windows through a known vulnerability. McAfee stated "Cybercrooks are increasingly taking
advantage of high general interest in the Olympic Games to trick people into giving up personal
information or to load malware on their PCs."
(www.pcworld.com 16APR08)