Trojan W32 / DotTorrent.A threatens legal proceedings

Various antivirus manufacturers report a particularly brazen Trojan horse that fools users into an alleged scanner and claims to have discovered files protected by copyright. The Trojan apparently searches for torrent files on the infected system and displays them in a large window.

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Depending on the national language, even in the appropriate translation.
Whoever clicks away the warning will be pleased with the message the next time it is started and also receives an exchanged screen background with the warning "Warning! Piracy Detected".
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Of course, this message also appears without such files being found on the system.
To remedy the problem of pirated content that has been found, a credit card payment of $ 400 is required, otherwise a prison term of up to 5 years and fines of up to $ 250.000 are threatened.

The non-existent organization "ICPP Foundation”Has a well prepared website ready to pull the money out of the pocket of the irritated users or to collect the credit card details at the moment.

F-Secure announced that the Trojan could be found, for example, as a iqmanager.exe nests in the system and is recognized as W32 / DotTorrent.A. (mh)

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