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"Backdoor Trojans"

Hello.

I scanned my computer earlier and it found a backdoor trojan.. :s
No idea when that happened! Deleted it automatically though.

Is there any way of finding out how long a virus has been on your computer? And where it's from?

It's an .exe file, so whether it's something I/other users have downloaded, I don't know. Don't recognise the name though.

Any way of finding out?

Info is appreciated. Thank you!

isn't it obvious

phi11ip wrote:
> Mainly porn sites, they use that Javascript to try and change your
> homepage.
>
> Busted.

And you know this how?

cookie monster wrote:
> You get it just by looking at infected web pages

Mainly porn sites, they use that Javascript to try and change your homepage.

Busted.

Does that only affect IE? I think my sister had that sort of problem but it was 'fixed' by me telling her to use Mozilla instead.

Ive only had one virus JS_EXCEPTION.GEN

You get it just by looking at infected web pages, it changes your homepage to whatever one its programmed to.

A clever little rascal, but not clever enough for Norton.

They're easy to get, funrunner was/is distributing .exe files that are infected with a trojan. I thought the files were fine as I used to have the same files before my PC broke.

Luckily my antivirus got them.

Heh. I got my very first virus when I had an Amiga 500 - appropriately it was called the Saddam Virus.

Ever since I've made sure that any computer I owned had an up to date virus checker on it all the time. And the latest security measure I've taken is to switch to a Mac ...

unknown kernel wrote:
> Ms NY wrote:
> >Prats!!
>
> Prats is the word.
>
> I haven't had a single virus in all the time I've been using
> computers. I use anti-virus software on my communal computer and the
> work computers (because I don't trust prats) but I've only started
> using it recently on my own computer and only then because work pays
> for it. I think that people who click on hotsex.exe deserve
> everything they get. But maybe I'm just grumpy tonight.

This is correct, people who get viruses have only themselves to blame. Common sense and just a little awareness of how viruses work are a far, far better solution than any anti-virus program. The only time I ever got a virus on my desktop computer was the blaster worm - the gateway to my LAN was running Windows XP out of necessity at the time, and it infected all the computers in my house :O(

And this was still my fault, for running illegal copies of Windows XP and not patching manually.

Ms NY wrote:
>Prats!!

Prats is the word.

I haven't had a single virus in all the time I've been using computers. I use anti-virus software on my communal computer and the work computers (because I don't trust prats) but I've only started using it recently on my own computer and only then because work pays for it. I think that people who click on hotsex.exe deserve everything they get. But maybe I'm just grumpy tonight.

Heh. Ran a search on Google for the name of it and the first thing it found was that BruteForce.. I'm sure that's a Hotmail hacking thing. Weren't me that downloaded it so it must be someone else using my computer.. Prats!!