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Spy-Idwi - trojan

Mar 16, 2004 5:19AM PST

Date Discovered: 3/16/2004
Date Added: 3/16/2004
Origin: Russian?
Length: Various
Type: Trojan

There are multiple versions of this trojan - users are recommended to use the latest engine and DATs for maximum protection. This family bears similarity to Spy-Tofger , bearing the following characteristics:

consists of dropper, DLL and EXE components
monitors windows with certain titles to capture keystrokes in sessions concerning online financial services
March 16th 2004
A new variant is known to have been spammed to users via an email such as that detailed below. Detection for this variant will be included in the 4339 DAT files .

The spammed out email is likely to be formatted as follows:

From: (some username)@microsoft.com
Subject: MS Security
Body:

Welcome to Windows Update!

More: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=101101

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