Comments on: Latest wincom32 peacomm rootkit has bugs http://www.antirootkit.com/blog/2007/01/23/latest-wincom32-peacomm-rootkit-has-bugs/ Antirootkit Software, News, Articles and Forums Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:21:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: The threat of Trojan.Peacomm and how to fix it - Simple Technology - News and how-tos for the digital lifestyle http://www.antirootkit.com/blog/2007/01/23/latest-wincom32-peacomm-rootkit-has-bugs/#comment-1125 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:57:40 +0000 http://www.antirootkit.com/blog/2007/01/23/latest-wincom32-peacomm-rootkit-has-bugs/#comment-1125 [...] What Peacomm does to you Once inside, the trojan tries to turn your computer into a spam-sending vehicle, but it can also try to open up backdoors for other malware. Amado Hidalgo, in a post on his Symantec blog, says that his team cataloged 1,800 emails sent out by an infected computer in about five minutes. He speculates that, at that point, another infected computer would pick up the spamming, presumably to change up the sending IP address, which some anti-spam detectors look at very carefully. He warns that Symantec has noticed modifications in the trojan including new email subject lines and a full-fledged rootkit. For a look at many of the possible bogus email subject lines and attachments attributed to Peacomm (and there are a lot), you can check out the Anti Rookit Blog. [...] […] What Peacomm does to you Once inside, the trojan tries to turn your computer into a spam-sending vehicle, but it can also try to open up backdoors for other malware. Amado Hidalgo, in a post on his Symantec blog, says that his team cataloged 1,800 emails sent out by an infected computer in about five minutes. He speculates that, at that point, another infected computer would pick up the spamming, presumably to change up the sending IP address, which some anti-spam detectors look at very carefully. He warns that Symantec has noticed modifications in the trojan including new email subject lines and a full-fledged rootkit. For a look at many of the possible bogus email subject lines and attachments attributed to Peacomm (and there are a lot), you can check out the Anti Rookit Blog. […]

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