Trojan slips through XP's back door
03:50 - Thursday 30 December 2004 by Wolfgang Gruener
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: trojan, slips, through, xps, back, door Category : Miscellaneous
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: trojan, slips, through, xps, back, door Category : Miscellaneous
Online miscreants have released a Trojan horse that can infect computers running Microsoft’s Windows XP, installing programs to remotely control a victim’s system.
Symantec warned in an advisory this week that the program - dubbed "Phel", an anagram of "Help" - infects visitors to a maliciously created website through Internet Explorer’s Help controls. A bug in the malicious program may prevent it from infecting some computers, the security company said.
The Symantec advisory can be found on the company’s website.
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