Be careful - Virus from User: "Andy"

Discussion in 'Feature Suggestions' started by foesepriolo, Oct 14, 2008.

  1. foesepriolo

    foesepriolo Bit poster

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    Sorry may be not here..but
    Yesterday I have received PM from user Andy with file -"winxp_patch.rar" (I asked about this file some users)... but my Antivirus told me about virus in this file.
    I have read about this virus on http://www.antivirus-scans.com/hackerinfo
    In a short:
    Trojan-AOL.Win32.Buddy.a

    Trojan-AOL.Win32.Buddy.a
    Aliases
    Trojan-AOL.Win32.Buddy.a (Genesys Lab) is also known as:
    Trojan.AOL.Buddy.a (Genesys Lab), APStrojan.ob (McAfee),
    AOL.PWSteal.32512 (Symantec), Trojan.Buddy (Doctor Web),
    Troj/Aolps-OB (Sophos), Trojan:Win32/PennyTools.236544.A
    (RAV), TROJ_AOL.BUDDY (Trend Micro), TR/APS-Ob_#2 (H+BEDV),
    W32/PennyTools.trojan (FRISK), Win32:Trojan-gen. (ALWIL),
    Trojan.AOL.Buddy.A (SOFTWIN), Trojan.AOL.Buddy.A (ClamAV),
    Trojan Horse.LC (Panda), AOL.Buddy.A (Eset) Description added
    Feb 13 2002
    Behavior Trojan
    Technical details
    this text was written by Alexey Podrezov, Data Fellows Ltd
    The "Trojan.Aol.Buddy" (also known as "PennyTools Trojan") is
    an AOL password stealing Trojan. Two versions are currently
    known (by May 1999). This Trojan uses a tricky way of
    installing itself to system. It uses 5 different ways at the
    same time to make disinfection more difficult:


    That is not very good virus. Be careful...
     
  2. John@Parallels

    John@Parallels Forum Maven

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    I banned user Andy
     

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