NEWS Trojan attacks Microsoft anti-spyware

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NEWS Trojan attacks Microsoft anti-spyware
BRITISH ANTI virus firm Sophos said it has discovered a
trojan which attacks Microsoft's anti-spyware product,
which actually is still in the beta testing stage.

Sophos said Mr BankAsh-A trojan is a piece of software that
attempts to steal online banking passwords.

As well as this, it also disables the anti spyware
software, and tries to prevent it from displaying warning
messages, and also deletes files within the appropriate MS
folder.

The trojan is after a number of banks, said Sophos,
particularly Barclays, Cahoot, Halifax, HSBC, Lloyds,
Nationwide, Smile and Natwest.

It said there's more on this at the Sophos site
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21177
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojbankasha.html

 

[Bill Sanderson]

It was good of them to deploy this during the beta so that efforts can be
made to make such things somewhat harder to do, perhaps.

 

[Robert Dohrenburg]

I've seen this report but the report doesn't mention how it
propagates or infects computers, so how good is it if you
don't know what to look for?

 

[George Ellis]

You know, I had not looked at it from that angle. HA! Great reply Bill!