Intraday malicious virus program: Trojan.Win32.StartPage.qea

Behavior:
This is a malicious Trojan virus program.
After being executed, the virus program shall replace IE icon with a malicious one which redirect infected computer users to malicious website specified by hackers. And then, the virus program shall hijack search engine of IE Browser or, other third party web browser software in order to increasing click rate of such website specified by hackers. Also, the virus program downloads and installs rogueware from background system of infected devices. So this malicious Trojan virus threatens computer security seriously.

Statistics:
RISING Cloud Security reported:
March 15th, 2011, Rising Cloud Security detected that there were 585,931 computers got attacks from malicious URL injection and, RISING has intercepted 22,493 malicious URLs successfully. Meanwhile, 36,171 suspicious URLs were submitted from Rising Cloud Security members.

Top5 Infected Website:
1, changchun.8684.cn/mid **
Injected malicious URL: ** org:54321/wm/360.html
2, dbyb.zqu.edu.cn/Edit **
Injected malicious URL: ** cn/Edit/uploadfile/ie.htm
3, guangzhou.8684.cn **
Injected malicious URL: ** org:54321/wm/360.html
4, www.cxkx.gov.cn/editor/css/best **
Injected malicious URL: ** cn/editor/css/mm/wmdn1.html
5, www.qzkx.gov.cn/inc **
Injected malicious URL: ** cn/inc/wmsmdl.html

Notice: the symbol ‘*’ means a stochastic letter or number.

Solutions:
1. Install Rising Internet Security, or Rising Antivirus plus Rising Firewall, and get update in time.
2. Install Rising PC Doctor, and choose “Leaks” function to check the leaks or vulnerabilities exist on your computer operating system, patch your computer system in a timely manner because many viruses spread by taking advantage of Windows operating system vulnerabilities.
3. Do not browse suspicious websites, and do not run suspicious plugins; turn off or delete unnecessary system services.
4. Do not receive the suspicious file from QQ, MSN, Email, etc.
5. Open RISING Active Defense and Auto-Protect function while accessing to Internet.

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