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12-29-2004, 07:09 PM
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Published: December 29, 2004, 11:13 AM PST
By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com Online miscreants have released a Trojan horse that can infect computers running Microsoft's Windows XP, installing programs to remotely control a victim's system. The program--dubbed "Phel," an anagram of "Help"--infects visitors to a maliciously-created Web site through Internet Explorer's Help controls, Symantec warned in an advisory this week. A bug in the malicious program may prevent it from infecting some computers, the security company said. The Trojan horse exploits a vulnerability, found in October, in how Internet Explorer and Windows XP Service Pack 2 handle help files called from Web pages. Full read: http://news.com.com/Trojan+horse+thr...l?tag=nefd.top Related Symantec Alert: http://securityresponse.symantec.com...an.phel.a.html Back 
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