Microsoft Malware Protection Center

Threat Research & Response Blog

August, 2008

  • Microsoft Malware Protection Center

    Another Malware Rides the 2008 Olympics Wave

    We recently noticed a new malware threat that is spreading via email. The email contains a malicious ‘CHM’ (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) file attachment which displays a document about free speech and media freedom during the Olympics in Chinese and English when opened. We have added detection for this threat and named it ‘ Backdoor:Win32/Xinia.B’ . You can read more about it in our encyclopedia. When the CHM file is opened, it will write a malicious file to “ c:\windows\downloaded program files...
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