MSRT Tool Fails In Spotting Zeus’ Latest Version
Security investigators from Trusteer a security company claim that albeit Microsoft has enhanced its MSRT (Malicious Software Removal Tool) with new defense abilities towards assisting organizations combat the notorious data-stealing Trojan namely Zeus, the tool has, however, failed in detecting the malware's most recent edition.
Notably, Zeus steals banking details via recording the keystrokes of the user and it's disseminated chiefly via phishing scams and drive-by downloads. After getting detected during July 2007 first, the Trojan reportedly has been contaminating PCs since then.
Highlights the security company that to see how effective the tool was in detecting and eliminating Zeus, it tested MSRT on innumerable Zeus files. Subsequently, it discovered that MSRT spotted Zeus 2.0 in 46% of the cases; however, failed to spot the latest 2.1 edition of the Trojan.
