MP3 Trojan Hits More Than 500,000 File Sharers
It's not very often we hear about viruses, Trojans, and other types of malicious programs affecting MP3 music downloads, but the latest outbreak is the biggest for three years. According to Mcafee Avert Labs, the Downloader-UA.h Trojan horse has been seen on P2P file sharing networks, such as LimeWire and eDonkey masquerading mostly as MP3 files. Over 500,000 users so far have been hit when installing a fake MP3 player called PLAY_MP3.exe. Once installed, the user's computer is infected with an adware program that launches an Internet browser page displaying a popup advert.
There are many filenames floating around on P2P networks with different file sizes and names. Some of the names include:
- preview-t-3545425-changing times earth wind.mp3
- t-3545425-just got lucky.mp3
- preview-t-3545425-st trinnians girls aloud.mp3
- t-3545425-los padres de ella.mpg
- t-3545425-suicide bride dana.mp3
Rather than risk your entire hard drive being infected and possible corruption by a virus it is always safer to use digital music services, or download free and legal MP3 music from reputable websites.
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Comments
Funny stuff, I get my cousin and friends bothering me at least once a month that they got a virus from downloading music, I say let them try to fix the pc for now on. In that case your blog was very informative, since Jamendo is AMAZING!, spreading the word is in order, hehehehe.