Concerned about the zeus virus aka Zbot, PRG, Wsnpoem or Gorhax? There is reason to be. This is from Wikipedia: "Zeus (also known as Zbot, PRG, Wsnpoem or Gorhax) is a Trojan horse that steals banking information by keystroke logging and Form Grabbing. Zeus is spread mainly through drive-by downloads and phishing schemes. First identified in July 2007 when it was used to steal information from the United States Department of Transportation, it became more widespread in March 2009. In June 2009, security company Prevx discovered that Zeus had compromised over 74,000 FTP accounts on websites of such companies as the Bank of America, NASA, Monster, ABC, Oracle, Cisco, Amazon, and BusinessWeek."
If you're concerned about having it on your computer and your antivirus not finding it check for any or all of these files:
The ZEUS trojan will commonly use names like NTOS.EXE, LD08.EXE, LD12.EXE, PP06.EXE, PP08.EXE, Dnn.EXE and PPnn.EXE etc, so search your PCs for files with names like this. The ZEUS Trojan will typically be between 40KBytes and 150Kbytes in size. Also look for a folder with the name WSNPOEM, this is also a common sign of infection for the ZEUS Trojan. Finally, check the Registry lloking for RUN keys referencing any of these names.
Lastly and most importantly keep your operating system and antivirus program UP TO DATE!
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