Computerworld reported over the weekend that malware pushers are using the assassination of Pakistani leader Benezir Bhutto to spread variants of the ZLOB Trojan, a notorious backdoor gateway to lots of assorted malware. Here's how it works:

When users find a link to a purported video of the assassination and attempt to play it, the website pops up a message that you need to download a new video codec to play the video. The 'codec', complete with an authentic-looking EULA, is actually the ZLOB Trojan.

The TrendMicro blog's article, The ZLOB Show: Trojan Poses as Fake Video Codec, Loads More Threats, provides an illustrated guide to how ZLOB works and some of its variants.

The Icrontic website provides a five-step tutorial to help you stop ZLOB in its tracks.

Keep in mind that the safest places these days to view breaking news video are at established news websites such as Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, and CBS.

And, now, stay tuned for the top three Windows blog stories of the year at MaximumPC.com on page 2.

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