Re: ISP notification, with virus

From: Trafton (traftonofjj2SPAM_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:18:55 -0700

Hi Chris,

It is difficult to be sure whether this was an attempt at hacking your
machine or not without knowing what Trojan horse was detected. My educated
guess would be that it was something like Trojan.ByteVerify, which is a
method that some gray-area sites use to drop spyware onto your machine. This
is probably what is known as a "drive-by download," which is used by
unscrupulous sites for advertising funds.

If spyware did successfully get on your machine, I recommend Spybot Search
and Destroy, here:

http://www.safer-networking.org/

Note that Microsoft does not apply any warranty for the above software, as
it is a third party program.

Sincerely,
Benjamin Johnstone-Anderson
Microsoft "MVP" - Windows Security
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"Chris" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1b17201c42003$35116660$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Last night, while surfing, a error popped up with a
> notification. "Comcast notification". As soon as it
> popped up, another one did to, a blue screen, with a IP
> listing, then my virus detection detected a trojan
> horse. I thought I was being hacked, so I powered off
> the machine, then back on. Removed the virus. I guess
> my question is, was someone sneaking around in my system?
>
> Thanks guys!
>
> Chris

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