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Security firms laugh at 'unstoppable Trojan' claims |
Security firms have laughed off claims from Secure Computing that a new Trojan can evade traditional antivirus systems.
Secure Computing's TrustedSource labs issued an urgent alert last night that the 'Mespam' Trojan was on the loose and that ordinary antivirus software would not be able to stop it.
"This threat signifies a trend towards blog, message boards and webmail-related malware," the alert warned. "What makes it particularly insidious is that antivirus detection from the leaders (McAfee, Symantec, Sophos, Trend Micro etc.) does not always work because Mespam uses server 'polymorphism', i.e. it is continuously 'repackaged' to make it appear different."
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