Instead of being a targeted cyberwarfare attack, this malware is simply a run-of-the-mill trojan virus that travels by "sneakernet, " the tongue-in-cheek name for the transmission of viruses across unconnected computers by hand (or foot) in the days before widespread Internet connectivity.

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Last week, a Russian security company reported that as many as 600, 000 Macs, most of them in the United States and Canada, had been infected by Flashback, a Trojan horse virus that infiltrates computers, secretly giving someone else remote access to them.

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F-Secure also offers protection against the Palm OS Phage.963 virus and the Palm Liberty Trojan, both of which have come to the public's attention.

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Once launched, the virus is designed to install a Trojan horse or backdoor program, and allow investigators to record everything typed into that machine, thereby getting around encryption and passwords.

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This led to the virus used by the gang being dubbed the "Storm Trojan".

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Antivirus researchers are examining a new Trojan horse that could pose more of a threat than the Cabir virus, which only spread by Bluetooth (which means Paris Hilton's Sidekick would not, we repeat, would not be vulnerable to the Cabir Trojan).

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Schrader said the best defense against Trojan Horse e-mail viruses is end-user education -- and, of course, updated virus-scanning software.

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School officials determined the virus was similar to Onel de Guzman's thesis, called E:mail Password Sender Trojan, which was designed to obtain Windows passwords, and retrieve Internet accounts from victims' computers.

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