[thechat] Trojan

Olly Hodgson gnarly at punkass.com
Fri Mar 29 15:45:00 CST 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Stevens" <kjs at ratking.co.uk>
Subject: [thechat] Trojan


> I am still a bit worried that there is a malicious program hiding
somewhere
> on my computer, something that could be used in a DoS attack. Any ideas on
> how I could go about checking for this? Also, any ideas on why Zone Alarm
> failed to stop the Trojan in the first place?

Surely ZoneAlarm wouldnt pick up the trojan until someone malicious tried to
use it, and it tried to make contact with the outside world?

How did the trojan come in? Was it piggybacked on an email or something?

Olly.





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