Flash Smokescreens a big threat for Windows users:
Experts working at Sophos labs, have found out that a Trojan spyware can disguise itself, and plays a humorous animation in flash. The FWO-Agent Trojan spyware plays a very popular "Yes & NO" video in shockwave, created by Bruno Bozzetto, the Italian animator. The Trojan only becomes active only after you have downloaded it and it further downloads other malicious code and spyware from the internet. The shockwave video that was published in 2001 on the internet by Bozeetto, is a hilarious video which tends to show that the rules of the road and obeying them does not make sense. Millions of internet users have been believed to watch the video since then. The video is a silent smokescreen for the Trojan, which infects Windows Computers and downloads more malicious code as the animation is playing. The animation has got nothing to do with the Trojan horse. Thousands of artists everyday create such animation and host it on to the internet, like Bruno Bozzetto, whose hours can only be negative spent watching such animations. The Trojan, which was embedded in the movie or the animation player, rather than the animation itself, is quite dangerous. The Trojan is exploiting society's penchant for forwarding such boisterous animations to friends family, while attempting to infect as many people as possible, the numbers only seem to grow. Active removal includes scanning and sweeping your computer of the animation files and using a sound anti-spyware like SpySweeper ot CounterSpy.
