Trojan.Zasil

Trojan.Zasil is a Trojan horse that tries to send information (such as host name and IP address) from an infected computer to the hacker who wrote the Trojan. It may arrive as a apparent spam email using various messages. The message characteristics are as follows:

Subject: Free Video
Attachment: Minenew.mpg.pif or Minenew.exe.pif.

The spam may come from an email address in France (.fr).

Protection

• Initial Rapid Release version November 5, 2002
• Latest Rapid Release version June 22, 2009 revision 066
• Initial Daily Certified version November 5, 2002
• Latest Daily Certified version June 19, 2009 revision 051
• Initial Weekly Certified release date November 6, 2002

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Threat Assessment

Wild

• Wild Level: Low
• Number of Infections: 0 - 49
• Number of Sites: 0 - 2
• Geographical Distribution: Low
• Threat Containment: Easy
• Removal: Moderate

Damage

• Damage Level: Low

Distribution

• Distribution Level: Low