[sdiy] Re: OT: important PC spying / hacking

[J. Larry Hendry]

Thanks Michael and all who responded.   I did indeed get this and ad-aware
yesterday once I discovered my problem.
Larry H


----- Original Message -----
From: Metzger, Michael A <MAMETZGER at PARTNERS.ORG>
To: MOTM List <motm at yahoogroups.com>; synth DIY
<synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 10:33 AM
Subject: RE: [motm] OT: important PC spying / hacking


The best application we've found for malware like that is Spybot Search &
Destroy. It seems to catch some files that Ad-Aware misses. Note that these
apps are designed to identify and clean data miners, pop ups, etc - not
viruses.
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
After installing it make sure to download the updates. Then run it and you
should be clean. It's still free but I see that they are now asking for
donations. It's a great tool.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: J. Larry Hendry [mailto:jlarryh at iquest.net]
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 11:12 AM
To: MOTM List; synth DIY
Subject: [motm] OT: important PC spying / hacking


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







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