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Trojan piggybacks on Firefox
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Posted by Donster on: 2006-07-26 16:01:57 689
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A new Trojan horse making the rounds has been installing itself as a Firefox extension, according to security company McAfee.
By Dawn Kawamoto Staff Writer, CNET News.com
The FormSpy Trojan attacks computers that have already been infected with the Downloader-AXM Trojan, according to a security advisory McAfee issued Tuesday. Once FormSpy is executed, it installs itself as a component of the Firefox Web browser.
The FormSpy spyware then gleans sensitive information, such as credit card and bank account numbers, from the user's browser and forwards it to a malicious Web site. But this Trojan is capable of other tricks, as well, McAfee noted.
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