PandaLabs Reports Three Trojans Infecting System in Early August

PandaLabs, a security firm, reported that three trojans namely - Exchanger.T, Nabload.DIK TR and Boface.A - appeared in the first week of August 2008.

Discussing the details of Trojan Boface.A, Security Researchers at PandaLabs said that the Trojan spreads via Facebook and MySpace. The worm injects a Web link into the comment posted by user on these social networking sites, so that users are taken to a phony Web page looking like the real YouTube site. Here if users attempt to watch a movie, they are prompted to download the latest Flash Player version, which leads to the installation of the Trojan virus onto their computers.

The second Trojan - Nabload.DIK TR - tricks end-users by showing a video clip of Kelly Key, a ...

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