CNN.com Daily Top 10 Trojan-Downloader.Agent.EL Removal Guide
Do you know what the CNN.com Daily Top 10 email is?
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The CNN.com Daily Top 10 email downloads the Trojan-Downloader.Agent.EL Infection onto your computer. We have discovered that a spam email message titled “CNN.com Daily Top 10″ is circulating over the internet and ultimately downloading a Trojan Downloader file.
In non-techie terms: Spammers commonly use catchy subject lines and spend a great deal of time making the fake email look legitimate. In the case of the CNN.com Daily Top 10 email message it looks like it came directly from CNN.com expect the senders domain address does not coincide. If this email is opened and a link is clicked it will redirect you to a malicious website that offers a viewing of a video. If you attempt to play the video on this site it will prompt you with a message that asks you to update the Flash Player in order to play it. The Flash Player download that it provides drops the get_flash_update.exe file. If the get_flash_update.exe file is executed it will then download the Trojan-Downloader.Agent.EL infection.
Trojan-Downloader.Agent.EL is known to download other malicious files or
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Written by Valentino on August 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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