Friday, September 19, 2008

They're trying to give penguins a bad name


Penguin Surprise, originally uploaded by Photographers Eye.

"Penguin Panic" trojan targets Windows iPhone users

iPhone-toting Windows users should keep an eye out for a trojan targeting their somewhat specific demographic. Spam e-mails advertising iPhone games—often with subject lines of "Virtual iPhone games!," "Take a break!," and "Apple: The most popular game!"—have begun circulating around the web toting a zip file called Penguin.Panic.zip. When opened, the Troj/Agent-HNY trojan is released and will wreak havoc on Windows systems.

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The rest of the tail...er.. tale is here:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/09/18/penguin-panic-trojan-targets-windows-iphone-users

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