Zeus Botnet : A Threat You Should Be Aware Of

Posted on timeSeptember 5th, 2010 by userAdvisor


Zeus is the name of a spyware whose main goal is to get people’s bank account details. It is one of the most common malware around those days, it is being used by professionals. The Zeus Builder Toolkit is used by cyber criminals to configure and reprogram this virus the way they want, with the functions they want. This virus is also known under the names of PRG and WSNPoem. The following website Scan For Zeus Botnet has lots of infos about Zeus Botnet.

Zeus Botnet normally reaches a user’s system via spam emails that are apparently from legitimate websites. Those emails are full of various links to many dangerous web pages. On those pages, you will be asked to download some file besides being asked for some personal infos. So the file will be compromised with a variant of that Zeus Botnet that will infect your PC this way. Some people have reported recently having been infected by one of the many variants of that virus when visiting social websites like Facebook and MySpace. These variants send messages to users of these social networking sites claiming that they need to download and install an ‘update tool’ to update their user profiles. As you might have guess it already, that program is but a variant of the Zeus Botnet trying to trick you. Check here Online Virus Removal for an online service that will help you clean your PC.

Once installed, Zeus waits until the user connects to the Internet and downloads a configuration file which contains a list of web banking websites to get the user’s information for. Once it has detected you are on one of those bank’s site, Zeus will record all your keystrokes. You might eventually find out that this virus has infected your IE/Firefox/Chrome also. The virus will add false fields to any web forms you might try to fill. The result will be you will give out more personal info to those cyber criminals. The Zeus Botnet developper will then get on a regular basis datas/infos gathered that way by the virus.

This virus is a dangerous one that will invade your personal life. You should do whatever is needed to delete it from your PC. You should deep scan your personal computer using a good antivirus program able to detect Zeus Botnet.

If you’re going to do a manual removal of that virus from your system, you should be very careful when doing such steps. Deleting the main file behind this threat besides stopping the process is what you should mostly do when you do try to manually remove that malware from your computer.

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