Re: trojans

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_localhost.localdomain)
Date: 06/27/04 

Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:55:25 GMT

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:18:43 GMT, news wrote:
>
> But i read that recently there were some kind of spyware/trojan from Russia

"Berbew" trojan

> that were installed on Yahoo visitors computer.

I kind of doubt it was caught from Yahoo.com. They are using Freebsd
servers and the exploit was cause by a worm infecting the Microsoft's
IIS servers using one of the multiple known IIS vulnerabilities.

> A firewall could not stop
> it. The spyware sent out information about bank account passwords.

Firewall does not stop what is being brought to you by your browser.

The Anti-virus software is the one to catch it, if it is not a day one
virus and you have the very virus lastest database update.