10:40 New Trojan steals passwords from browsers firefox | |
All new and new viruses come out "in the light" thanks to the efforts of virus writers, some of which are very talented. This energy would let a peaceful course ... but that dream - let us rather learn more about the new contagion, which is especially dangerous for users of many favorite browser Mozilla Firefox. So, a new virus, Trojan-PWS-Nslog, unbeknownst to the owner of a PC can make the Firefox browser to store data (passwords / logins) different sites visited by the user, and then transmits all this to its creator. Virus was detected through the efforts of specialists of the company Webroot. In the continuation - for more information about malicious programs. So, Trojan-PWS-Nslog deactivate the option in Firefox, which causes the browser to issue a request for keeping your password / login at call on any site. Function of preserving the connection password / login is enabled in Firefox by default, and many of us work with her, glad that every time when approaching the site does not have to enter it all over again. But the joy soon. The fact that the Trojan-PWS-Nslog simply blocks the request save login and password, silently keeping all this data into a local file. To achieve such a possibility the virus simply adds a few lines of code and comment on some other parts of the code in the file from the folder nsLoginManagerPrompter.js Firefox-a. The virus then creates a new Windows account Maestro, gathers data from the «Protected Storage» of Internet Explorer, the repository of passwords of Firefox, and attempts to send stolen data all the hacker who created the virus. True, a domain that was used by an attacker to obtain the data has already been closed. It is worth noting that within the virus can also find some information about the author of this software - there is a link to his Facebook page and have it e-mail. As it turned out, the author - an Iranian, who decided in this way to distinguish himself. In his account on Facebook is just and free keylogger for users of Windows. According to experts, get rid of the virus is not so difficult - you just need to re-install Firefox. It is clear that before this it is necessary to neutralize the virus, experts from Webroot offers to do your own antivirus software. Also, the guys from Webroot recommend disabling the Auto save login and password in Firefox. Via Yahoo | |
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