The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Estonian authorities were able to take over the servers originally run by Trojan's perpetrators, redirecting infected users back to their intended destination.
The threat, which is identified by BitDefender as Trojan.Qhost.WU, modifies the infected computers' Hosts file (a local storage for domain name / IP address mappings, which is consulted before domain name servers and is considered authoritative).
Free ZeroPOPUP toolbar packs a Trojan payload.PopUP Killer and ZeroPopUps infect users. This is true, though by hosting Pyra's "Blogspot" service, Google can theoretically index weblogs in virtually real time, and remove the burden from Pyra's much...
