Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye

Posted: April 19, 2013

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Threat Level:	8/10
Infected PCs:	91

First Seen:	April 22, 2013
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye is a prominent variant of the all-too-infamous Zeus Trojan, a multiple component PC threat that includes both traits of spyware and backdoor Trojans. As seems to be the inclination nowadays, Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye is distributed via spam e-mail messages, with the messages designed to look like notifications about your mobile phone account's balance. Since Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye is distributed as a ZIP-archived attachment, a little common sense should be all that's needed to figure out that Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye actually isn't a report from a mobile phone company. However, if your computer is infected by Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye through this method or any other way, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers strongly urge you to use anti-malware products to delete Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye (and, ideally before Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye has an opening for stealing any sensitive information).

Why a Hasty Double-Check of Your Finances Can Come Back to Haunt You

As a well-known offshoot of Trojan Zeus (AKA Zbot or Wsnpoem), Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye has been distributed through several dissimilar ways, but a few of the most recent Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye attacks have been associated with e-mail spam messages portraying themselves as notices from Australia's TPG Telecom company. The content of this spam announces that your mobile account's deposit has dropped below permissible levels, seemingly forcing TPG to initiate a debit charge. The message then requests you to refer to a ZIP file attachment, which supposedly contains further details – a stratagem that SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have noticed time and time repeated in similar attacks portraying themselves as being sent by various legitimate companies.

Opening this file, of course, will not give you any further information on your nonexistent mobile account problems, but it does have a very real effect: the installation of Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye, one of the most prominent examples of Zeus in the wild today. Since Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye is a sophisticated PC threat that can reconfigure its attacks as Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye receives new instructions, the problems linked to Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye are somewhat flexible, but SpywareRemove.com malware experts especially warn any victims to be on the lookout for:

Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye's attempted theft of personal information, particularly account details for FTP accounts, e-mail accounts and social networking services.
The presence of other, specialized PC threats that can be installed by Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye automatically.
Reduced browser security settings, which may include symptoms like an inexplicable loss of your cookie-saved data or a lack of warning messages whenever you're exposed to hostile websites.
Security-related programs, particularly firewall tools, being disabled.

Clearing this Divine Infiltrator Out of Your PC

While the real Zeus was known for being a masterful disguise artist for less than noble reasons, Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye simply tries to avoid being seen at all and injects its code into unrelated memory processes. Besides letting Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye run without its own memory process, this function also may inhibit various anti-malware programs from detecting and disabling Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye.

To combat this danger, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers endorse trying to deactivate Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye before you remove Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye from your computer. Booting your computer from any uninfected flash drive is the easiest way of doing this, and will put you in a good position to delete Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye with whatever anti-malware program you trust.

Alternately, you could save yourself the trouble and just delete Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye's spam e-mail messages without opening them.

Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.jqye

Threat Metric

Why a Hasty Double-Check of Your Finances Can Come Back to Haunt You

Clearing this Divine Infiltrator Out of Your PC

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