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Don't Fall For: 'security Tool'.

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Posted 04 Mar 2010 - 05:41 PM

The following message is being posted on a lot of forums lately:

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A new virus has infected more than 750 thousand computers around the world, Reuters reports citing the information the company NetWitness.

Virus "Trojan-DownIoader.Win32.Agent" gathers information on the login and password for the online financial systems, social networks and mailboxes.

According to the company, was contaminated by many organizations, sites of banks, mailboxes Yahoo, Hotmail accounts, and a number of social networks.

The first data on Trojan-DownIoader were obtained specialists NetWitness back in February, when assessing the safety of one of the client networks. In a cache of stolen information Trojan-DownIoader revealed more than 680 thousand usernames and passwords, including for access to online banking, Facebook, Yahoo, Hotmail, and more than 20 thousand SSL-certificates, personal data.

General computer protection from malicious software and installation of password system can not protect your PC from this virus, however there is a specialized anti-virus software to fight against such viruses.
Download link: xxxx://removetrojan.net/securitytool/install.exe

I've killed the link for safety.

It's being posted by a guy called: SecurityTeam

This a Rogue program known as SecurityTool and its a baddie.
Malwarebytes Anti Malware will remove it.
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