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Trojan.Ecure - Internet Explorer & Host files attacks continue

This new Trojan could require some extensive repair work based on the write-up at Symantec's site.

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.ecure.html

Trojan.Ecure is a Trojan horse that modifies the Hosts file and Internet Explorer home page.

Posted: Jun 30 2004, 06:21 AM by Harry Waldron | with 1 comment(s)

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Harry Waldron said:

Symantec writeup starts off well. However if you don't have any uptodate av software to detect the files, when you reboot it all starts off again as they didn't check the various startup locations in the registry/program locations. I'm still trying to disinfect my parents-in-law machine.

# July 11, 2004 11:23 AM

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