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Re: "several million machines worldwide...infected"

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____/ nessuno on Friday 16 Apr 2010 17:45 : \____

> <Quote>
> Up to 88% of Fortune 500 companies may have been affected by the Zeus
> trojan, according to research by RSA's FraudAction Anti-Trojan
> division, part of EMC. The trojan installs keystroke loggers to steal
> login credentials to banking, social networking, and e-mail
> accounts...
> 
>  The malware itself predominantly attacks Windows XP machines, though
> Windows Vista and Windows 7 variants are available for sale too.
> </Quote>
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/04/almost-all-fortune-500-companies-show-zeus-botnet-activity.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Well, Windows 7 *is* a Vista variant. There are no Windows 7 variants, just a different 
number of features artificially disabled for extortion.

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