It seems that online baddies are again using a flaw in the Windows help system to help themselves - to access to your computer system.

As reported by Aunty last week, a flaw in the help system for certain releases of Windows, along with instructions on how to exploit it, were announced by a Chinese security firm earlier this month.

However this new Trojan, just discovered this week by security firm Symantec, is a different exploitation of that ‘help’ flaw, found in computers running Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later.

The Trojan, known as “Phel.A” (”phel” being an anagram of “help”), shows up as… [Continued…]