Security Alert
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erik
- Posts: 2018
- Joined: 7 Mar 2000 1:01 am
Security Alert
Last night I got an alert say, "Block Stealth Spy Trojan". Never seen this one before. It's not listed at Norton. What would it do?
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Rich Paton
- Posts: 708
- Joined: 3 Dec 1999 1:01 am
- Location: Santa Maria, CA.,
Introduce a very-low-profile secret agent, who attended USC, into your system.
Serioiusly, this sounds like a logger or data mining malicious app which might just do a survey & upload (a firewall must block your apps which can function as "servers", i.e. uploading data to the internet & some unknown destination) (Barad-dur, Isengard?) to let a hacker assess whether your rig is worth violating further.
Google results for search term "Stealth Spy Trojan" : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22stealth+spy+trojan%22&btnG=Google+Search
i read "destructive" in one of the page hits.
What OS, and what firewall are you using? Seems like it has done its job well on this.
Serioiusly, this sounds like a logger or data mining malicious app which might just do a survey & upload (a firewall must block your apps which can function as "servers", i.e. uploading data to the internet & some unknown destination) (Barad-dur, Isengard?) to let a hacker assess whether your rig is worth violating further.
Google results for search term "Stealth Spy Trojan" : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22stealth+spy+trojan%22&btnG=Google+Search
i read "destructive" in one of the page hits.
What OS, and what firewall are you using? Seems like it has done its job well on this.