New Trojan entices by the plan of the games of the football championship

5th May 2006

Specialists in questions of computer safety prevent about the appearance of a sequential harmful program, which uses methods of so-called social Engineering. New Trojan exploits common interest in the forthcoming world championship on the football, which will begin in the following month in Germany. The scheme of the propagation of harmful program, as reports Infoworld, is following. To potential victim comes electronic letter with the text "Fussball Weltmeisterschaft 2006 in Deutschland" ("the championship of the world along the football in Germany"). In the message there is a link to the certain file googlebook.exe, allegedly containing the plan of the competition. However, if user by the carelessness clicks to the link, Trojan penetrates to its computer instead of the expected graph of games . The criminal police of Baden- Wurtemberg already directed information about the harmful program into the federal agency of the information sequrity of Germany, and also into the FBI. By the way, Trojan, supposedly, is extended from the server, located precisely on the territory of the United States. By the way, the methods of social Engineering are adapted by virus writers sufficiently frequently. For example, the hurricane Katrina involved the spam- distribution of messages with the proposal to learn details about the natural calamity. However, to curious instead of the information was sent the harmful code.