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Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Inspires Trojan

Posted by timothy on from the this-gets-confusing dept.

Even though it's been withdrawn, the Lycos anti-spam screensaver is not forgotten. Rollie Hawk writes "And with this, the 'What's Good for the Goose...' award goes to all those people trying to install that notorious spam-attacking Lycos screen saver but ended up with a Trojan horse instead. This trojan is spreading via email with the subject line 'Be the first to fight spam with Lycos screen saver,' tucked in an innocent-looking file called 'Lycos screensaver to fight spam.zip.' According to F-Secure, this trojan contains keylogger elements but little more has been specified. The only question I have is how long until the 'I promise to clean that trojan disguised as a DDoSing Lycos screen saver.exe' virus gets released."

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  1. Didn't you see Boondock Saints?? by hajihill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who says violence with violence doesn't work??

    Didn't you see Boondock Saints?? ;^9

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  2. Re:Obligatory File Extension Hiding Reminder by SammysIsland · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One other big Windows pain in the ass is that renaming files doesn't change the extension, unless done in cmd window.

  3. Re:Well, that's what you get by millwall · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah. Right. This is manifestly not true, and proven by history to be untrue: see: World War II, American Civil War for starters

    If we were to see an objective graph where the outcome of wars has been good for people and worth the casualties, and when it hasn't, do you think you would come to the same conclusion?