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Trojans on the Rise, Say Computer-Security Experts

Dec 5, 2003 1:26AM PST

By Michael Y. Park
NewsFactor Network
December 4, 2003

What Belthoff found most disturbing were signs of a coalition between spammers and Trojan programmers. Recent Trojans like Regate-A and Dmomize-A infect and essentially hijack computers, using them as bases from which to launch reams and reams of spam.

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