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      #390080 - Tue Apr 01 2008 02:50 PM

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We've seen tons of banking trojans lately, but now we've run into something quite unique.

This new banking trojan was found today from a drive-by-download site. We've added detection for it as Win32.Pril.A

It not only infects the MBR of the machine, but also reflashes the boot code in the Flash BIOS, making disinfection problematic.

Once an infected machine is online, the trojan monitors the users actions, waiting him to go to go to one of several hundred online banks, located all over the world.




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While working on the last few remaining issues we have with the Acid3 test, one of our testers discovered an easter egg in the test. Over the weekend our developers have hunted down more of them and worked around the clock to improve our score as you see in this screenshot: (follow link below to view)
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