Latest Symbian trojan is bogus antivirus tool
Here's one way to get people to download a virus: disguise it as an antivirus utility. That's what's been done with a new variant of the Skulls trojan for Symbian cellphones. Antivirus software company F-Secure reports that the new Skulls-L is camouflaged as an unlicensed version of F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus. While purists may argue that anyone who downloads commercial software without paying for it gets what they deserve, we have to admit that it's a pretty clever way to distribute a trojan, and is probably going to hit a lot more innocent users than earlier versions, which were disguised as games.
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kennyg @ Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM
I think this type of virus distribution and modifications to warez are the only thing that keeps many people using warez.
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kennyg @ Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM
Oops, I meant that I think these kinds of things keep people AWAY from WAREZ. Good for shareware developers at least.
jordan @ Dec 19th 2005 1:36AM
oh the irony. all of the google ads are for "Free Anti-virus" downloads of norton or similar