Evil Trojan Attack On Angry Birds
Bit Defender advises online shoppers to increased attention Holzwickede, September 20, 2011 angry birds is currently among the most successful worldwide (mobile) games. According the manufacturers registered at times up to 1 million downloads a day; overall, the game has been downloaded more than 200 million times. But like so many success stories from the World Wide Web, currently also Cyber gangsters try to beat their profit from Angry Birds. As expert antivirus BitDefender (www.bitdefender.de) recently discovered the digital pest Trojan.Generic.KD. 337850 in an online shop, the angry birds fan articles sold. Angry birds was originally developed as a game app for Apple iOS users of touchscreen smartphones. In the game, it comes to make colored pigs cowering in various buildings with the help of a bird spin.
The “evil birds” also for PCs and game consoles are now available. The corresponding Web site with angry birds fan articles has been targeted by hackers with malware infected – however due to the quick response of the administrators of the shops with little success. The page was cleared quickly, so so far no user has proven infected his computer with the E-threat. “Even if acute no longer is a danger of the said web shop, this attack shows that online shoppers should be very attentive and protect your computer with a good security software that scans the visited Internet pages on malware infections and in real time,” advises Catalin Cosoi, head of online threats BitDefender. For more information see. High resolution images can be requested under company description about BitDefender BitDefender is a software engineer, one of the industry’s fastest and most efficient product lines internationally certified security software. Since 2001, BitDefender is a industry-wide pioneer in developing award-winning protection technologies. Every day, the virus protection expert protects computer many million residential and business customers around the world.
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