PhatBot Trojan Spreading Rapidly On Windows PCs

[Rock_on]

"The Washington Post alerts Windows users about a new peer-to-peer backdoor client that is installed maliciously on broadband-connected computers around Asia and the United States. The client is then used for distributed DOS attacks and sending out large amounts of spam. Phatbot, according to government sources, is installed on hundreds of thousands machines already. Phatbot snoops for passwords on infected computers and tries to disable firewall and antivirus software, albeit it is detectable by antivirus packages."

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EDIT: Sticky for importance

 

[l33t bunny master]

thank you i shall run my anti-virus now..

 

[Bag]

Do you think that could be the reason why my homepage is always being re-set to a random pop-up page?

 

[Thistle]

shit I think I got it at my school

burn mother burn!!!

 

[Rock_on]

lol it could be that (about the home pages) i know i have something on my computer,im just going to have to back everything up and re formt.s its currently cut off by my fire wall that it keeps trying to crash... :-/

 

[Hitsua]

That will teach you window's users to rot in hell.

 

[munchyman]

ok ...
1-hitsua, go to hell (unless u use linux, which means you kick ass)

2-so THATS what i have

3-I pogrammed a steaming cup of coffe in java....it pwnz

 

[x42bn6]

Bag, go to http://www.lavasoft.de and download Ad-Aware 6 for free, it's spyware for you.

And no sticky, at least until if and when the Computer Forum comes up.