Skulls Trojan puts on antivirus mask

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Date: June 20, 2005 12:28:06 AM EDT
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Skulls Trojan puts on antivirus mask

By Joris Evers
Story last modified Fri Jun 10 12:05:00 PDT 2005

A new variant of the Skulls Trojan horse for cell phones is trying to
trap victims by posing as antivirus software, F-Secure has warned.

The Skulls Trojan horse, which affects Symbian-based cell phones,
first surfaced in November. This latest Skulls.L variant is similar
to Skulls.C, the only difference being that it's disguised as a
pirated copy of F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus, the Finnish antivirus
maker said in an alert posted Thursday.

Like earlier versions, the new Trojan attempts to disable system
applications and replace their icons with images of skulls. It also
drops two versions of the Cabir worm on the device. The worms aren't
activated until the user clicks on their icons, F-Secure said.

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http://news.com.com/2100-7349-5741033.html




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