An email is being distributed about the big controversy between the Brazilian soccer coach and the President of Brazil over the health of team star Ronaldo. The email is in Portuguese and includes photos of Ronaldo and President Lula. The email encourages the reader to click on the attached file to view a video relating to the controversy. The attachment is actually a Trojan .exe file. Upon download, the file extracts itself and emulates a Microsoft software installation thus allowing it to alter firewall settings such that it can operate seemingly undetected. The application then attacks.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 at 10:16 pm and is filed under Security.