A new virus is spreading by email in Malaysia, combining threats of terrorist plans and a Trojan horse virus. Victims receive an email that claims to warn of five planned terrorist attacks, with the times and places leaked by an anonymous Malaysian government source.

The email's subject line is "Urgent message to all citizens of Malaysia", and the email says it seeks to minimise the number of terrorist victims by spreading the terrorist attacks information, reported the Star, a Malaysian daily.

Inside the email is an embedded link that purports to link to a site with important information regarding the attacks. However, the Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team (myCERT) said that clicking on the link instead installs three malicious files that appear to be Trojan horse virus files and adds a new key to the computer registry. Then the virus attempts to connect to three Internet hosts set by the virus. MyCERT's website said the virus was similar to the Backdoor.Tofger Trojan horse reported in early December 2003.

Anyone wishing to read more, can check out this article at CNET News.com.

Paul

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Of course, it should be pointed out that these trojan horses and other nasties only work on Windows computers. Companies like me who use Macs exclusively have nothing to fear from this particular problem of life on the Internet. I've operated my business for 8 years without a single day down due to viruses and other problems.

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