Fake MP3s Running Rampant on Limewire, eDonkey
Date : 2008 05 09 Category : Web News
McAfee Avert Labs reports of more than 600,000 VirusScan Online users detecting an executable trojan in what it calls the most significant malware outbreak since 2005.
Every file-sharer is hopefully well aware of the dangers of unknown executable files. The importance of this knowledge was proved again recently following a report on the McAfee Avert Labs blog that more than 600,000 McAfee VirusScan Online users detected a Trojan horse masquerading as a media file on a number of P2P and file-sharing networks.
Called the most significant malware outbreak since 2005, some 28% of the 2 million plus PCs scanned in the past 7 days are reported to be infected with the Trojan referred to as Downloader-UA.h.