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By Mary Landesman, About.com Guide to Antivirus Software since 2000

Porn email leads to Trojaned website

Wednesday August 4, 2004
Clickers beware: Yet another batch of porn email currently circulating contains a link pointing to a booby-trapped website. Curiousity seekers will be silently greeted by a downloader Trojan which then serves as a malicious entry into the system - downloading and executing other malware. Find out how it works.

Yahoo People Search once again target of worm
Also plaguing users, a new variant of Evaman (some vendors claim it's a Mydoom) is once again targeting Yahoo's people search, using the database to procure email addresses for its malicious mailings.
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