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Plesk 8.2 contains the Meredrop Trojan

Scissor

New Pleskian
Hi everyone,

I found a trojan on my system and wanted to alert the plesk community.
I downloaded this installer package from this website, so I'm sure many many of you have been affected.

Here is the Alert from my virus scanner:

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Category: Trojan

Description: This program is dangerous and executes commands from an attacker.

Recommended action: Remove this software immediately.

Items:
containerfile:C:\STORAGE\Install\Plesk\Plesk.8.2\MailEnableStandard.exe
containerfile:C:\STORAGE\Install\Plesk\plesk_8.2.0_build070705.17.exe
file:C:\STORAGE\Install\Plesk\Plesk.8.2\MailEnableStandard.exe->(wise0028)
file:C:\STORAGE\Install\Plesk\plesk_8.2.0_build070705.17.exe->(RarSfx)->070705.17\MailEnableStandard.exe->(wise0028)

Get more information about this item online.

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Here is the screenshot:
http://www.game-master.net/images/meredrop.png
 
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