Guest Grim Reaper Posted November 25, 2003 Report Share Posted November 25, 2003 Windows users were warned today to be on their guard for a new Trojan that poses as a racy attachment to a saucy email. The Sysbug-A Trojan is disguised as an attachment containing naked pictures of a young couple. It's actually malicious code that, if run, allows hackers to gain control of vulnerable computers. AV firms believe virus writers are distributing the Trojan using spamming software. As usual, Sysbug-A infects only Windows machines. Infectious emails commonly arrive with the subject line 'Re[2] Mary', an attachment private.zip which contains a viral payload called 'wendynaked.jpg.exe', and the following text: Hello my dear Mary, I have been thinking about you all night. I would like to apologize for the other night when we made beautiful love and did not use condoms. I know this was a mistake and I beg you to forgive me. I miss you more than anything, please call me Mary, I need you. Do you remember when we were having wild sex in my house? I remember it all like it was only yesterday. You said that the pictures would not come out good, but you were very wrong, they are great. I didn't want to show you the pictures at first, but now I think it's time for you to see them. Please look in the attachment and you will see what I mean. I love you with all my heart, James. According to Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, the Trojan horse has been spammed out en masse in an attempt to hit as many people as possible. It's commonplace from spam to pose as misdirected email. Cluley said virus writers are using the same ploy in an attempt to trick Net users into running malicious code. Sysbug-A is spreading over the Net but its prevalence is a fraction of more common pathogens such as Swen-A or the various Mimail variants currently doing the rounds. Nonetheless that's no reason for complacency. Windows users are urged to update AV signature files to recognise the Trojan and to practice safe computing, which partly involves thinking twice before opening an unsolicited attachmentThe register Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted November 26, 2003 Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 I have a copy if anyone interested :) I'm talking via email with Kaspersky Labs over this one, KAV is being fickle in detecting it :) Maybe I'm being stupid in my settings, but I doubt it :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted November 26, 2003 Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 From anything up to a hundred spam per day in the last few days, my total so far today is NIL, ZERO, ZILCH, NONE AT ALL etc. So I hopefully will not receive this one. I changed my e-mail address last night from keith.jones5 to something a lot more obscure. I hope that this will contribute toward making the auto diallers job more difficult. Why not give it a try? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted November 26, 2003 Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 Good one, andsome, but when you've gpt a business addy you're stuck with it. The recent legislation is pathetic as it allows 'businesses' to spam each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted November 26, 2003 Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 Good one, andsome, but when you've gpt a business addy you're stuck with it. The recent legislation is pathetic as it allows 'businesses' to spam each other.I fully understand the problem, but my solution seems to work for the private individual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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