Vundo - Dangerous Trojan
Posted on December 23, 2008
Filed Under Trojan
Vundo is a dangerous trojan that shows great amounts of unsolicited pop-up advertisements. Vundo also silently downloads from the Internet and runs arbitrary potentially harmful files, mostly adware components. Vundo is distributed by e-mail in messages containing links to insecure web sites that exploit certain security vulnerabilities of the Internet Explorer web browser. Once you click on this link, Internet Explorer opens an extremely dangerous site that automatically installs the trojan into the computer without your knowledge. Vundo will severely decrease of the amount of computer virtual memory available. Your computer will slow down considerably. Vundo secretly runs on every Windows startup.