Microsoft: Online Gamers Still a Top Malware Target

ronjor · Feb 21, 2009

What's the most common type of malware on the Internet? Viruses? Botnet code? How about password-stealing worms, designed to victimize online gamers?

Microsoft said Thursday it had removed nearly 1 million samples of a particularly virulent password-stealing worm in the first half of February. The company's Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) rooted out more than 981,000 copies of a family of programs called Win32/Taterf, best known for stealing usernames and passwords for games such as World of Warcraft, Legend of Mir and Gamania.
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rookieman · Feb 23, 2009

I've been thinking this for a while.When the wife downloads these games it seems like something always gets detected.Thanks ronjor.

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