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• Spam Trojan Installs Own Anti-Virus Scanner

  I found this on E-Week.com and thought that it was pretty interesting! Veteran malware researcher Joe Stewart was fairly sure he'd seen it all until he started poking at the SpamThru Trojan—a piece of malware designed to send spam from an infected computer. The Trojan, which uses peer-to-peer technology to send commands to hijacked computers, has been fitted with its own anti-virus scanner—a level of complexity and sophistication that rivals some commercial software. "This the... Posted Oct 21 2006, 03:42 PM by John Piers Cilliers with | with no comments Filed under: SpyWare/Malware