McAfee has warned the Internet users from ‘BackDoor-BAC!55436’, trojan delivered via a spammed fake email from Walmart. The trojan was mass spammed on Tuesday, October 10, 2006, according to McAfee.


McAfee has warned the Internet users from ‘BackDoor-BAC!55436’, trojan delivered via a spammed fake email from Walmart. The trojan was mass spammed on Tuesday, October 10, 2006, according to McAfee.

“Backdoor-BAC!55436 is a trojan that is delivered via a spammed fake email from Walmart. It opens a backdoor port on the compromised computer which allows a remote attacker unauthorized access and also post logged keystrokes and stolen passwords back to the attacker.” [McAfee]

McAfee has advised the Internet users to not to trust unknown emails received via P2P clients, IRC or other media where users can share files.

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