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Beware Of Anonymous E-mail Online Postcards

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Yet another e-mail online postcard virus has been launched. This time the unsuspecting user gets a postcard from a “secret admirer” or other anonymous source, and when the user follows the link in the email to retrieve their “postcard,” what they really end up retrieving is the Dloader-UT Trojan.

Dloader-UT in turn then downloads the Trojan virus Dumaru-S which installs itself on your computer, allows others remote access to your system, and records your keystrokes!

Dumaru-S is also known as “Backdoor.Win32.Dumador.az.”

Explains Carole Theriault of Sophos, who has been quoted a lot this week (what’s happened to Graham Cluely?), “You may think you’ve received an electronic greetings card from a secret admirer, but in fact it’s a hacker who is going to be showing an unhealthy interest in…

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