Originally Posted by
gordo
For the hell of it, I clicked one of the links, which brought me to a porn site that tried to download a file setup.exe. After sending it to virustotal, and a google search.... [url]http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/*0bbc*6*87*67564bb6de6fccb204***[/url]
I must've missed this thread in my spamhunt, thanks for letting me know gordo.
EDIT: Some Googling gave me the name of the trojan, intresting read - [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlob_trojan[/url]
Originally Posted by
The Wikipedia Aritcle
The Zlob Team of computer crackers automatically submit forum comments with the use of automated script program like Xrumer creating forum spam. If the links are clicked, the Zlob trojan will force itself into installation. These are often found in the form of medicine and pornography promoting but recently have included for streaming video's websites. The trojan can be hidden in literally anything.
Even more info about Xrumer, which I'm guessing these spammers are using - [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xrumer[/url]
Originally Posted by
The Wikipedia Article
In addition, the software can avoid the suspicions of forum administrators by first registering to make a post in the form of a question which mentions the spam product ("Where can I get...?"), before registering another account to post a spam link which mentions the product.
I've seen that exact type of spam here.
Last edited by Moonbat; 06-10-2008 at 06:16 PM.
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