Protect Your Computer from Trojan.Peacomm
As of January 19, 2007, Symantec Security Response is advising users to be cautious of any unsolicited email which contains attachments that claim to be legitimate or interesting, due to a recent trojan horse named Trojan.Peacomm.
The Trojan horse arrives as an attachment to an email purporting to contain a video of one of several different recent news stories. The attachment may be one of the following: FullVideo.exe, FullStory.exe, Video.exe, ReadMore.exe, FullClip.exe.
The attachment is actually a trojan horse that will install itself on the system and download other malicious programs from various computers on the Internet. The attachment and the trojan horse it contains will be detected as Trojan.Peacomm. Other malicious programs that are commonly downloaded by this threat include Trojan.Abwiz.F and W32.Mixor.Q@mm.
Once installed and running, this threat attempts to establish communication with other infected systems on the Internet via a custom peer-to-peer network. This network is used as the distribution source from which the other malicious programs are downloaded.
Symantec Security Response has analyzed the threat and has provided protection for it via LiveUpdate and Intelligent Updater. The latest AntiVirus (AV) definitions will detect all known variants of the Trojan.Peacomm trojan horse.
(Symantec)
January 22nd, 2007 at 18:30
I received a warning today from Symantec telling me my computer was in immediate danger. I ran LiveUpdate and the message I received told me that Live Update was unable to protect me. Your article says it should. Can you tell me what to do now?
Thanks
February 28th, 2007 at 01:45
You may want to either do more investigation on the Symantec website, as some Trojans you have to take steps yourself to remove or ensure that your subscription to Symantec’s services are up-to-date.
Keep in mind also that some times you need to reboot in SAFE MODE before running the scan on your system.