Un-named trojan

Users of Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger instant messaging program
receive a message that includes spoofed Zip files, such as one named "pics"
that is actually a double-extension executable in the format
"filenamejpg.exe" or a file labelled "images" that in reality is a .pif
executable.

Anybody know how to recognise on a system and more importantly how to get
rid of this trojan?

If you had (an updated) anti-virus installed at the time, it will generally
pick it up as soon as the download finishes.

Without knowing which specific trojan you received it's difficult to give
instructions on removal, so if you have it already I suggest you do a
antivirus scan; there's free ones, like:

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm

--
Edward Chow
Windows Live Butterfly: Messenger 2005-2007



"Learner" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Users of Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger instant messaging program
> receive a message that includes spoofed Zip files, such as one named
> "pics" that is actually a double-extension executable in the format
> "filenamejpg.exe" or a file labelled "images" that in reality is a .pif
> executable.
>
> Anybody know how to recognise on a system and more importantly how to get
> rid of this trojan?
>

This trojan has just come to light in the last few days............


"Edward Chow [WL Butterfly]" <> wrote in
message news:8DBD1BBF-5A6C-48AE-95DB-...
> If you had (an updated) anti-virus installed at the time, it will
> generally pick it up as soon as the download finishes.
>
> Without knowing which specific trojan you received it's difficult to give
> instructions on removal, so if you have it already I suggest you do a
> antivirus scan; there's free ones, like:
>
> http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm
>
> --
> Edward Chow
> Windows Live Butterfly: Messenger 2005-2007
>
>
>
> "Learner" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Users of Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger instant messaging program
>> receive a message that includes spoofed Zip files, such as one named
>> "pics" that is actually a double-extension executable in the format
>> "filenamejpg.exe" or a file labelled "images" that in reality is a .pif
>> executable.
>>
>> Anybody know how to recognise on a system and more importantly how to get
>> rid of this trojan?
>>
>