Microsoft Finds New Trojan That Deletes Itself

[LiLmEgZ]

Some people might think Microsoft's own PC anti-virus solutions are lacking compared to other third-party programs, but that doesn't mean Microsoft researchers can't make some new, and potentiality frightening, discoveries in fighting new malware threats.

In a new post on the Microsoft Malware Protection Center blog, Microsoft has found a new Trojan malware threat that is labeled as "TrojanDownloader:Win32/Nemim.gen!A". This new threat is apparently able to delete its own files after it is installed on a PC. The blog adds:

This prevents the files from being isolated and analysed. Thus, during analysis of the downloader, we may not easily find any downloaded component files on the system; even when using file recovery tools, we may see somewhat suspicious deleted file names but we may be unable to recover the correct content of the file.

However, Microsoft's team admitted it "got lucky" and managed to find some of this new Trojan's files. Basically, the files identify the malware as a password stealer that goes after email accounts, Google Desktop, Windows Live Messenger and more, The blog adds, "As such, if you're infected with TrojanDownloader:Win32/Nemim.gen!A, we recommend you change all account passwords after you've cleaned your system, as it's likely you've also encountered PWS:Win32/Nemim.A."

VERY INTERESTING TROJAN IF YOU ASK ME!!!

News Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finds-new-trojan-malware-that-deletes-itself

[digimon]

lol ive seen Trojans and viruses do all kinds of stuff heck theres some that dont even have a presence on the hard drive they exist only in ram

[LiLmEgZ]

lol ive seen Trojans and viruses do all kinds of stuff heck theres some that dont even have a presence on the hard drive they exist only in ram

Care to elaborate on which ones these may be?

[digimon]

lol ive seen Trojans and viruses do all kinds of stuff heck theres some that dont even have a presence on the hard drive they exist only in ram

Care to elaborate on which ones these may be?

Memory Resident Virus

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/different-types-of-computer-viruses.html they get into ram and stay there till they fulfil there goals once excuted they dont always need to have any files left on computer but on roboot they are removed

[irefay]

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Shit guys, I think Ive been hit. :lol: