Aol trojan apstrojan.qa information

This page provides information about the apstrojan.ja Trojan virus.

Virus information

01/31/2001 - Designed to attempt to steal America Online (4.0 and 5.0) users names and passwords and send them VIA e-mail and through the "buddy list"

Symptoms

This virus is sent through e-mail with the subject reading "hey you" and in the body of the mail the text "hey i finally got my pics scanned...theres like 5 or 6 of them...so just download it and unzip it...and for you people who don't know how to then scroll down...tell me what you think of my pics ok?"

In the e-mail the file mine.zip is attached. This file contains the virus.

How to clean virus

To not become infected with the computer virus, do not open the e-mail attachment.

If you believe you have downloaded or opened this file, obtain the latest update from your antivirus scanner developer and clean the computer using the latest update.