The latest attack is a so-called Trojan horse, code used to swipe information from compromised PCs, named Myfip.

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Rouland points out that ISS Tuesday discovered a chat room called "IP Victims" on Yahoo that is being used for the exchange of IP addresses of machines compromised by the Trojan horse Back Orifice and an older distributed denial-of-service attack tool called Sub Seven.

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