Trojan gets early start

by Iain Thomson

22 May 2006

Warning from BlackSpider this morning that a 0 day trojan was on the loose in the UK between 6.20am and 9.20am when a patch was released. Around 275,000 of the little blighters are thought to have been emailed out to UK businesses in that time.

A case of the early bird gets a worm, apparently.

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