Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Zeus Virus: Becomes powerful.



Zeus Virus is a virus that steals of online banking information from infected computer. It is one of the most powerful viruses now. Zeus virus comes of revision 1.6 that can normally access in Firefox and Internet Explorer. And this time, Google Chrome and Opera Browser is safe.

According to the BBC news, 5.5 million computers have its apart in protecting. 1 over 3000 has encountered this Zeus virus. And it’s not only found in Trusteer operation in the U.K but also including in the USA. This virus steals all your baking information by recording your keystroke. Wow they become more intelligent now.


Here’s the statement of Amit Kleim – Chief technology Officer of Trusteer

"We expect this new version of Zeus to significantly increase fraud losses, since nearly 30% of internet users bank online with Firefox and the infection is growing faster than we have ever seen before,"


A Zeus virus was already studied and destroyed when the kazakhstani ISP was used. But it’s not that easy to stop it especially if it still spreading.


Adviced of Dr JD Marsters, from the department of electronics and computer science at the University of Southampton

“Computer users should ensure that their anti-virus software and operating systems are kept up to date”


I can’t imagine that this Zeus virus still active and ready to steal money. So let’s be careful with our computer. Let’s follow what Dr JD advised... And we should relay in our best anti virus specially that has a MalWare Removal