New Trojan Horse Travels By Spam

Antivirus and e-mail security companies are sending out warnings about a new Trojan horse program that they claim is being mass-distributed on the Internet through spam.

The program, called Backdoor-CGT, is a new form of a Trojan horse installed after e-mail recipients using Microsoft Outlook follow a Web link embedded in an e-mail message. The Trojan horse is believed to have infected thousands of systems on the Internet since appearing early Tuesday, even though antivirus software and up-to-date versions of Outlook are immune to attack.

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