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Posted by Todd H. on December 23, 2005, 10:59 am
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a_n_onymous80@yahoo.co.uk writes:
> I received an email from a friend today with a "christma.exe"
> executable inside a zip file. Alarm bells started ringing, but seeing
> how it was a trusted friend I thought it should be OK.
That's a bad test unfortunately because most email worms go after
people's address books to send themselves out again, so by definition
all infections can come from someone you know. Just because it's
from a friends email address does not mean the friend knowingly sent
it.
> Anyway, after scanning the file with my Grisoft Free antivirus, I
> double clicked on it and it seemed a harmless enough Macromedia Flash
> e-card.
>
> I'm now feeling guilty that I may have let loose a Trojan on my system.
> I've checked the Task Manager and there don't seem to be any rogue
> processes I don't recognise.
Lucky. But the sophisticated modern malware is pretty good at hiding
itself from task manager. So it's not clear that all is ok.
> Can anyone confirm that this is just a harmless e-card?
>
> http://rapidshare.de/files/9683346/Christma.zip.html
I don't think I'll be investigating this for ya. :-) Perhaps
someone with a proper malware analysis setup might venture forth
though.
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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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