Re: syscfg32.exe accessing the internet?

From: Daniel Angelucci (angelucc@nospam.duke.edu)
Date: 10/31/02 

Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:23:29 -0500
From: Daniel Angelucci <angelucc@nospam.duke.edu>

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.sdbot.b.html

Bad news.

Dan

Jared wrote:
> i am running win2k with a cable modem, and i've recently
> noticed an extremely large volume of activity on the modem
> when, in fact, it should have been idle. suspecting a
> security problem, i installed a firewall, which eventually
> told me that the file syscfg32.exe was trying to access
> the internet. i denied the program permission, and the
> modem became idle, as it should have. does anyone know
> why this file would be trying to access the internet, and
> if it is indicative of a problem?

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