Virus writer toolkits and the general ease of creating new variants of established malware strains mean anti-virus firms have begun to need three alphabetical letters for some Trojan families.
It's tough at the coalface, fighting the never-ending malware in email menace, so it's understandable that techies chuckled when they stopped several copies of Trojan-Downloader-Small-Coc on Tuesday, as the prolific malware strain crossed an eagerly awaited double entendre-loaded milestone.
document.write('\x3Cscript src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/adj/reg.security.4159/antivirus;'+RegExCats+GetVCs()+'ptype='+RegPage+'; maid='+maid+';pf='+RegPF+';pid='+RegId+';dcove=d;t est='+test+';sz=336x280;tile=3;ord=' + rand + '?" type="text/javascript">\x3C\/script>');
Ironically, the email text reads:
Hi,
I want to share my photo with you.
Wishing you all the best.
Regards,
If you try and view the photo, you are then compromised by the small-coc, our source (who wishes to remain anonymous) informs us.
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