Malicious Fake Movie File on Home Computers

, placed there by hackers according to this digitalMASS article. The fake movie file is really the "Serbian Badman Trojan" which transmits data allowing the hackers to control the computer like a robot to launch attacks on other computers. People with cable and DSL connections that are left on all the time without a firewall are susceptible. It is not clear from the article if Macs are affected as they were with the Open Transport 2.5 assisted planned New Years Eve attack and other effected denial of service attacks. The name of the fake movie clip was not mentioned. [Dana Baggett]