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Fareit malicious program

12 Oct 2015

Security experts have warned users about a new malicious program. Malware is called as "Fareit” existed since 2012 and is the main feature is that infected computer could be infected with other malicious programs easily. Over time, the malware .developed by hackers is already infected to computers stole passwords from web browsers and transfer it to the other side.

"Fareit so-called" this new version of the malicious program infected with the same file name save only name of the file but it can change "hash". The main purpose of such a feature in addition to a malicious program to prevent the virus being detected by antivirusus.

Thus, the main aim of this malicious program which infected to the computer and the antivirus cannot detect it, is infecting other malicious programs to a computer and stealing user names and passwords from web browser to pass to the opposite side