Monday, January 14, 2008

Watch out for new Trojan

A new trojan virus Symantic antivirus has dubbed Trojan.Silentbanker has hit the internet. If you bank online this is definitely something to watch out for. According to PC World this virus silently redirects banking data and sends it to the attackers account. So your making a transaction thinking it is being sent to where you are directing it but it is actually being sent to the attacker. Symantic has dubbed this a low level threat and stated it is easy to remove but that it is a danger because of it's ability to work without being detected. I would recommend doing an updated virus scan before doing any banking business online as well as after. That is what I intend to do.
For more information check out the Symantic website for updates or instructions on how to get rid of this trojan.

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