[sdiy] OT: important PC spying / hacking

[J. Larry Hendry]

I hate "virus warning" e-mails, because so many of them in the last have
been a hoax.  However, I recently discovered something on my PC that I
wanted to share with my "friends" here on this list.  I am on a dial up
connection, so data traffic is fairly obvious.  I started noticing a large
amount of data transfer to and from my PC when there should have been none.

So, I started looking for suspicious executable files and found the
offender.  It started in my C:\windows directory as a file called
"system.exe".  The file was dated 4/1/04 (April fools day).  Here is some
info on this nasty piece of spyware that was copying files from my machine.

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojtofgerb.html

Larry Hendry