Prolin spreads using a .exe entitled 'creative' masquerading as a Shockwave Flash movie. After the attachment is run, Prolin places itself on to the infected machine's C: directory and starts to search the hard drive for ZIP, MP3 and .JPG files.
Magistr, a polymorphic executable file virus, spreads by email as it contains its own SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) handler, allowing it to mass mail all the contacts within a user's Outlook, Netscape and Internet Mail address books.
MSIL allows all low level executable files to be executed across different platforms very quickly, which could include those files hiding viruses. He said: "An executable file like notepad, has a language inside called assembly language which is...
An attacker could create a hand-edited Macromedia Flash, or SWF, file that can compromise a PC or Macintosh if its user views the file with the Shockwave Flash Player plug-in for Internet Explorer, Netscape or other browsers.
By simply asking a colleague to print a file from a USB stick Muscat was able to steal his workmate's My Documents folder and all passwords saved on the machine. Bob Ayers, associate fellow with the Chatham House information security programme...
Currently at least 20,000 websites have been infected with code that exploits the flaws, which occur when Flash Player processes a malicious Shockwave Flash (SWF) file. Included in the update is a patch for multiple vulnerabilities in the Adobe...
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