Re: PORTSCAN virus?

[JamesWilson () THEPENTAGON COM (James Wilson)]

portscan.exe was probably bound to the ICQ.PWS.Trojan.

-- James Wilson

"Geo." wrote:

> 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.