Sunday, December 24th 2006
Powerpoint 'Merry Christmas' message installs trojan
Security firm iDefense has found a "Merry Christmas" Powerpoint presentation that comes with a nasty surprise- a trojan. E-mails with the following subject and attachment are very likely to be a security risk:
Source:
The Inquirer
Subject: Merry Christmas to our hero sons and daughters!Ken Dunham, of iDefense, says that this attack is similar to other exploits of Microsoft products throughout the years, and that the attacks are based on a remote server in China. If you think you may have caught the trojan, the two files that it installs are msupdate.dll and sdfsc.dll.
Attachment: Christmas+Blessing-4.ppt
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