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E-mail security firm MessageLabs Inc. this week expressed concern over the Trojan Backdoor-CGT that spreads through spam.
“The scary thing about this is that it was spammed out, which allowed it to move rapidly in a short period of time,” said Natasha Staley, an information security analyst for MessageLabs.
The program–also known as Xebiz-A, Troj/Xebix-A, and Trojan.Win32.Genme-A–is installed after e-mail recipients using Microsoft Outlook follow a URL in the message, Symantec said in an advisory.
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