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Trojan Plaguing File Sharing Networks
A massive outbreak of malware begin hitting media swappers

According to security vendor, McAfee, Trojan Downloader-UA.h is fast affecting popular file sharing clients like eDonkey and Limewire through bogus MP3 and video files dumped onto these file sharing networks.

Once the Trojan finds a home on a PC, running it will trigger download of additional components which will pop ads up on the infected machine.  The real danger will come if more sophisticated malware backers combine their operations with some kind of rapidly developed zero-day exploit.   

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Source : http://www.securitypronews.com/insiderreports/insider/spn-49-20080507TrojanPlaguingFileSharingNetworks.html
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