OT - Backdoor/sub seven trojan horse

Hi All,

I've had one of these bugs in my computer for a long time, and it resists
any of my attempts to get rid of it. Norton seems to have it contained, as
it blocks all attempts for this thing to make outside contact. I've written
to Symantic several times but they don't respond. Any suggestions on how to
get rid of this thing...is there software available that will clean it up?

Al

Someone answers:

Thanks!

Al


"John Steinberg" wrote in message
...
Someone wrote:

I've had one of these bugs in my computer for a long time, and it
resists
any of my attempts to get rid of it. Norton seems to have it contained,
as
it blocks all attempts for this thing to make outside contact. I've
written
to Symantic several times but they don't respond. Any suggestions on
how to
get rid of this thing....


http://www.hackfix.org/subseven/
http://www.hackfix.org/software/antitrojan.html
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ven....subseven.html
http://tinyurl.com/8bn7

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While we are on the subject, my XT home computer has a nasty tick that bites
with the logo trickler_4010. Norton stops internet access but this bugger keeps
ringing. does anyone know how to temove this creep. I tried to delete or rename
the beast but neither strategy worked. Any help would be appreciated.
Bill Bambrick
41 N, 73 W, 95 ASL

On 10/23/03 07:36 +0900, Jb2269 wrote:

While we are on the subject, my XT home computer has a nasty tick that bites
with the logo trickler_4010. Norton stops internet access but this bugger keeps
ringing. does anyone know how to temove this creep. I tried to delete or rename
the beast but neither strategy worked. Any help would be appreciated.

You've got Gator installed, which is spyware. The
trickler_4010.exe program is a component of Gator that monitors
your internet habits and then calls home to report. I'm not
entirely certain, but I'd think that one of the spyware-killer
programs, such as Ad-Aware, could remove this.

trane
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// Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
// http://mp3.com/trane_francks/

Al wrote:
Hi All,

I've had one of these bugs in my computer for a long time, and it resists
any of my attempts to get rid of it. Norton seems to have it contained, as
it blocks all attempts for this thing to make outside contact. I've written
to Symantic several times but they don't respond. Any suggestions on how to
get rid of this thing...is there software available that will clean it up?

Al

If you are dead sure what the trojan's name is, look at Symantec's site
for a removal program and it will delete entries from your registry and
the trojan's files, etc.

I would also suggest you make a back-up of all your very important data
files first!

Good luck!


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"Trane Francks" wrote in message
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You've got Gator installed, which is spyware.

Trane--

you might wish to read this about gator being spywa

http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5095...ag=cnetfd.buzz

Bill--

i strongly recommend spybot--search and destroy if you wish to remove files
such as gator. the price is right: free, though the author will take your
donation to help pay his bandwidth costs. he offers occasional definition
updates which install automatically, as well.

http://spybot.eon.net.au

clear, dark skies--

mark d.

Do a google search on trickler 4010. Lots of info there. Also, check out
Lavasoft's Ad-Aware, it probably would find it and let you do something about
it.

Clear, Dark, Steady Skies!
(And considerate neighbors!!!)

While we are on the subject of this sort of stuff, I also downloaded PortPeeker
from wilders.org. I had been getting statistics on some activity on ports 137,
138, and 139 on my Kerio firewall. I start u p PortPeeker BEFORE I connect to
the internet, and configure it to peek on UDP port 137, then bring up the
internet. Now the traffic on all 3 ports has stopped, and my SPAM mail has
trickled off to practically nothing. I use Wal-Mart Connect ($9.94 a month)
and suspect that it had been opening these ports, but am not certain. I just
know that I went from 7-10 SPAM messages a day to less than one.
I also use Ad-Aware, SpywareGuard, Spybot Search and Destroy, and a few others,
and they are pretty good at finding and stopping spyware. I also use the
$19.95 SpyBlocker, which stops a lot of ads, scripts, bugs, and other stuff.
One warning - SpyBlocker uses a Hosts file, and if you also use Ad-Aware or
SpyBot S&D, do NOT have it isolate the Hosts file, or your SpyBlocker will not
work. I had to search all over the place to find the right Hosts file to take
the read-only attribute off of.

Clear, Dark, Steady Skies!
(And considerate neighbors!!!)

On 10/23/03 23:03 +0900, mark d. doiron wrote:

"Trane Francks" wrote in message
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You've got Gator installed, which is spyware.

Trane--

you might wish to read this about gator being spywa

Call it whatever you like, dung still stinks. :-)

trane
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//------------------------------------------------------------
// Trane Francks Tokyo, Japan
// Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
// http://mp3.com/trane_francks/