Trojans appear to take advantage of bird flu to infect

Virus creation experts always take advantage of hot news events to make the opportunity to spread malicious code. The trojan called Naiva.A is currently infected in the form of an attachment in e-mails that explain the pandemic of bird flu that could occur at a global level.

Naiva.A trojan is currently hiding in some Word files called 'Boom in North America' or 'What is bird flu?'.Jeanine Rother, a virus researcher at Panda Software, said: 'Using bird flu to code malicious code is a very smart method.Now a lot of computer users are very concerned about the pandemic of bird flu, and they are willing to open any attachments to look at the event.Although everyone is warned that any unknown source files should not be opened, the curiosity and concern for their lives is still greater. '

Naiva-A trojan used two Microsoft Word macros to operate.When infected with the computer, these two macros will automatically install another trojan called Ranky.FY on the computer, this companion trojan will create a backdoor to allow hackers to control the computer. from far away.

Panda Software recommends that users should immediately set the macro security level to at least the average mode to prevent malicious macros from being activated, or it is best to disable the macro mode in Microsoft Word.

Naiva-A is currently hiding in many forms of spam advertising the sale of Tamiflu bird flu vaccine.

HOANG HAI