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Malware Forcing Firefox to save passwords

LoLth · 2010-10-11 13:17:29

http://blog.webroot.com/2010/10/06/patchy-phisher-forces-firefox-to-forego-forgetting-passwords/ interesting read. "The keylogging Trojan copies itself to the system32 directory with the filename Kernel.exe; drops and registers an old, benign, deprecated ActiveX control called the Microsoft Internet Transfer Control DLL,…

11-10-2010 02:17PM

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http://blog.webroot.com/2010/10/06/patchy-phisher-forces-firefox-to-forego-forgetting-passwords/

interesting read.

"The keylogging Trojan copies itself to the system32 directory with the filename Kernel.exe; drops and registers an old, benign, deprecated ActiveX control called the Microsoft Internet Transfer Control DLL, or msinet.ocx (MD5: 7BEC181A21753498B6BD001C42A42722), which it uses to communicate with its command and control server; then it creates a new user account (username: Maestro) on the infected system."

Simple fix: install the latest version over your current version (even if your current is the latest already). It'll just overwrite the existing files with non-compromised copies.

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