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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Trojan poses as Lycos Europe screensaver

"An identity-stealing e-mail Trojan horse that disguises itself as the Lycos Europe antispam screensaver is being distributed around the Internet, an antivirus company has warned. F-Secure said Tuesday that the key-logging Trojan steals usernames, passwords, credit card details and e-mail addresses, and travels as an e-mail attachment," reports CNet.

The subject of the Trojan e-mail reads: "Be the first to fight spam with Lycos screen saver." It comes with an attachment file labeled, "Lycos screensaver to fight spam.zip."

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