Re: Grokster and your email

["Michael" <scorpsec () optushome com au>]

I updated my AV definitions for Norton's the other day, and it picked up the
dlder.exe stated. Also the explorer.exe was picked up a while ago too. They
both come up with the ID of "Backdoor.Trojan".


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark L'Italien" <mlitalien () memberdrive com>
To: <yanker () sympatico ca>; <vuln-dev () securityfocus com>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: Grokster and your email


> Hi all. Could someone out there with "Grokster" submit it to Symantec so
> they can add it to the virus definitions? I can do it if necessary if
> someone zips it up and sends it to me.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <yanker () sympatico ca>
> To: <vuln-dev () securityfocus com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 10:24 PM
> Subject: Grokster and your email
>
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > I too got burned by Grokster, and removed it.
> > After removal, the dlder.exe program, and the
> > C:Program Files/Grokster/DB folder remained,
> > with 2 .dbb files. I opened them, and found one of
> > them had many, if not all, of my emails from my
> > Outlook Express Inbox mixed in with what I had
> > downloaded. I don't know if my firewall stopped
> > them from getting this information, but it is not
> > something you want to see. Time for Netscape.
> >
> > Hank