Microsoft's regular flaw
Date: May 21, 2006Source: Beta News
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The exploit is spread as a Word document attached to an e-mail. Users who open the attachment with Word XP and Word 2003 are then infected with a trojan that contains rootkit-like features in order to hide itself from antivirus scanners.
The trojan communicates back to a server, but it's not yet clear what data is transferred. "When the exploit is launched, early on in the process, it drops a bot, possibly Rbot or some variant," said SANS Internet Storm Center researcher Chris Carboni in a diary entry.
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