Plague uses component of the Windows Update

A new Trojan virus, baptized of TrojanDownloader: Win32/Jowspry, if bases on the component Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to lower modules of malware. In accordance with the site heise Security, the BITS is the used component so that the tool Windows Update functions with perfection, but brings a bigger easiness to the insertion of malicious modules.

Previously, so that a virus inserted new codes in the computer of its victim, it was necessary that any type of protection firewall was incapacitated automatically; applicatory imperfections in as navigating, for example, were used or despite privileges of access to the net were gotten by the malicious program. According to blog of the Symantec, the virus was discovered by the German analyst of security Frank Boldewin, who verified the way of operation of a virus propagated in Germany saw Spam in the end of March of 2007.