New malicious software spy on bank data and system information from Holzwickede, September 16, 2010 the virus protection expert BitDefender (www.bitdefender.de) has a removal tool developed for ZBot, one of the currently most dangerous Trojan. The digital pest official name gene: Variant.Zbot. 13 peeks out of the user’s private data and creates screenshots on the compromised computer. The removal tool is free download available at. ZBot also ZeusBot is not unknown: for example, the pest in the current BitDefender E-threat report for Germany appears. The Trojan spreads mostly via spam and malicious websites. Once ZBot has ensconced on the computer, he spied online banking data, system information of the computer and other sensitive data. In addition, it generates screenshots of your desktop.
The new variants of the Trojan are also able to spy out the history of visited Web pages and data entered online. For User, their computer already infected that developed BitDefender the ZBot removal tool. It checks the PC on this kind of malware and it recognizes many variants of the Trojan. When the tool detects a compromise, it will remove the pest from the computer. Because ZBot spreading very quickly and every day new forms occur, BitDefender recommends the users to regularly install updates of the virus removal tools. User of our anti-virus programs are in terms of malware defense already up to date”, says Catalin Consoi, head of online threats labs by BitDefender. For more information see. About BitDefender BitDefender is software developer, one of the industry’s fastest and most efficient product lines internationally certified security software.
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