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Re: PORTSCAN virus?
From: mstrmind () PHONERANGERS ORG (Steve)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 07:25:00 -0400
the 7th sphere scanner used to be well known for its speed in scanning and its million of different trojens out there by its name. Some of them are the real version of the portscanner, but alot of them out there and especially on irc, they are fake. So yes, symantec is wrong. -mstrmind -phonerangers.org 900mhz owns jo0 ----- Original Message ----- From: Geo. <georger () NLS NET> To: <> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 1:07 PM Subject: PORTSCAN virus?
portscan.exe was recently detected as ICQ.PWS.Trojan on a machine by symantec antivirus program. The program file is the 7sphere port scanner dated Monday, April 07, 1997, 4:51:46 PM and it seems to me this was a long time ago and possibly before most ICQ type password hacks came out. Anyway, Symantec said the following: "The reason Norton AntiVirus found it and no other AntiVirus software did, is because we are probably the only one that has a virus definition for that particular trojan. The virus definition for this trojan was added
5/9/00."
I'm posting this here for 2 reasons, first in case anyone else has this
port
scanner, second in case symantec is wrong. Hopefully I can get
confirmation
one way or the other on this. Geo.
Current thread:
- PORTSCAN virus? Geo. (May 24)
- Re: PORTSCAN virus? Steve (May 25)
- Re: PORTSCAN virus? James Wilson (May 25)