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Fake MP3s Running Rampant on Limewire, eDonkey

By soulxtc

McAfee Avert Labs reports of more than 600,000 VirusScan Online users detecting an executable trojan in what it calls the most significant malware outbreak since 2005. Every file-sharer is hopefully well aware of the dangers of unknown executable files. The importance of this knowledge was proved again recently following a report on the McAfee Avert Labs blog that more than 600,000 McAfee VirusScan Online users detected a Trojan horse masquerading as a media file on a number of P2P and file-sharing networks. Called the most significant malware outbreak since 2005, some 28% of the 2 million plus PCs scanned in the past 7 days are reported to be infected with the Trojan referred to as Downloader-UA.h.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on May 09, 2008 (boomark / email).