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Spammer:Win32/Newacc.A
Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Aliases: Mal/Proxy-B (Sophos) Backdoor.Ocrservice (Sunbelt Software)
Summary
Spammer:Win32/Newacc.A is detection for an attacker tool that automatically registers new e-mail accounts on Hotmail, AOL, Gmail, Lycos and other account service providers. To achieve this, the tool communicates with a Web Service in order to bypass CAPTCHA protection. CAPTCHA is an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
Manual removal is not recommended for this threat. To detect and remove this threat and other malicious software that may have been installed, run a full-system scan with an up-to-date antivirus product such as the Microsoft Safety Scanner (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=212742). For more information, see http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/vista.mspx.
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