Dec 31 2004

Ask IE For Help, Get a Trojan

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U.S.-based security firm Symantec has issued an advisory about the Phel Trojan, discovered on Wednesday, which infects PCs running Windows XP.

The Trojan infects the PCs when users call the Help controls in Internet Explorer. The Trojan spreads as an HTML file and attempts to exploit IE’s HTML Help Control Local Zone Security Restriction Bypass Vulnerability, according to Symantec.


Trojan.Phel.A downloads and executes Backdoor.Coreflood Trojan from the down.spainglobaling.com domain.

Read the complete Story @ Tech Tree

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