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Security Researchers Raises Warning Against New Ransom Trojan PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 21 April 2011 15:00

Recently, a new Trojan has been identified that attempts to scare by a series of messages that try to imitate Microsoft's activation procedure. According to the security vendor F- secure, a compromised system will witness a message that notifies readers that, the copy of Window is locked and they might become a prey to a scam or there might be some internal problem in the system.


The Trojan has been recognized as Trojan.Generic.KDV.153863. However, users are not requested directly make any sort of payments. Rather, the Trojan developers make money via a method called short stopping.

The Trojan pops an error message on the computer screen, which notifies users that the license of the Windows software is locked. This message appears on a blue screen, to present an impression that the message was dispatched from Microsoft.

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