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Trojan.Fareit.C

Posted: February 27, 2012

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 9/10
Infected PCs: 276
First Seen: February 28, 2012
Last Seen: March 20, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Trojan.Fareit.C is a seditious Trojan infection, which is included in a malware attack based on a fake YouTube video. Trojan.Fareit.C is involved in a malicious email, which pretends to come from YouTube and has the subject line 'Your video on the TOP of YouTube'. The spam email carries a malicious web-link, which, if clicked, opens a bogus page that illustrates the buffering of video going on and shortly displays the video. But at that moment, the attacker urges the victim to download and install the Flash Player file named 'Flash_Player.exe', which is detected as Trojan.Fareit.C. The infected file has the same icon as the legitimate file. Once executed, Flash_Player.exe does not install any player but starts corrupting the PC system with Trojan.Fareit.C and another backdoor Trojan named Backdoor.Cycbot.G. If your computer has been infected with Trojan.Fareit.C, use a genuine anti-malware application to remove it immediately after detection.

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