Do Not Trust Kneber Botnet

May.28, 2010 in Computers

A big concern for anyone using the Internet (and for experts too) is how many viruses and such are infecting computers every day. Such threats are a big problem because they will steal your personal infos in many ways. Some popular ones are the spyware category, those that will spread via social networks besides those trying to steal your money (scamware). Recently, a terrible spyware did compromise more than 75,000 systems that were part of various organizations (2500 of them) and of lots of social networks. So this threat (it has been reported as Kneber Botnet) will try to steal people’s personal infos (their login and password) to various social networks. The ones that have been affected so far are Hotmail, Yahoo and Facebook. Check here Kneber Botnet Removal to learn how to remove Kneber Botnet.

Once this threat has all your infos, it will send them to cybercriminals. Kneber Botnet virus was initially discovered in January during a routine check, and is problematic the fact that conventional protection programs are not useful in detecting this virus. Kneber Botnet Invisible is another known name for this threat. Social networks trying to detect viruses will see nothing wrong with this threat thus its another name. So this threat will trick lots of PC users besides getting usernames and passwords. This website Computer Repair is a great online service dedicated to fix any problems on your computer.

Kneber Botnet has been named this way for the name of the first email used it used to spread itself. Since it did start to infect computer system, this threat stole thousands of personal details (usernames / password) from lots of people. To get more money from computer users (using frauduntly the infos stolen) and to market products/services with Kneber Botnet are the main purposes of this threat. Some computer users might think Kneber Botnet is being used by only some cybercriminals. The reality is that the real authors behind this virus are not known, yet. What is known is that there is a large network of people using this virus for illicit marketing.

Kneber Botnet is popular because instead of being oriented towards stealing financial information, it steals social networks related information. Many people are using social networks every day. That’s why this virus was able to spread so much and to steal lots of personal infos from lots of people. As there is now no efficient tool in identifying this virus at a large scale, one should be more cautious when browsing over the Internet.