Fourtyrulz

I just got this brutal email from our local Resnet folks on campus:

And my question is a pretty simple one. How the hell did I get an sdbot trojan? I never download anything, my computer is password protected, and I only visit a select few sites. For those of you who have read anything about my current roomate problems, I was wondering if there is a way to use a boot disk or something to give me an sdbot trojan. Because I honestly don't know how I could have gotten it any other way!

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Dilbert1234567

There is a new variant of it out just recently, it is not known by anti virus definitions yet. I’m dealing with it at work right now; as soon as I isolate it ill ship it off to the proper channels.

To answer your question, Trojans gain access through exploits in the system, this Trojan uses a yet unknown exploit, it is being worked on. it gets in through the network.

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shadowalker

Not to take away from the post, I just love the quote on there message

As a result of the infection, your network connection has been
disabled. In order to restore Internet access you will need to reformat
your computer using the instructions at our website-
Once you have reformatted, reply to this e-mail address stating you
have reformatted and give your first and last name and your connection
can be re-enabled.

If thay have disabled your network connection how are you supposed to visit there website and get the information on formattion your system to there specs?

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P-Naughty

Yeah, I thought it looked pretty shady myself. I'd call the people and make sure this isn't some BS "teddy bear virus" style e-mail. These virus hoax e-mails pose as serious a threat as a real virus.

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ratbastid

For that matter, how are you supposed to get this email?

spillblood

i had the same problem b4 but my internet company didnt even tell me i have a virus they just cut me off. after two days of no internet i called rogers and asked why my internet was down. talked to three different ppl and didnt find out anything i was just told they would look into it. a week and a half later after calling a few times i found out from them i had a trojan and that they had removed my internet after fixing the problem i called and hooked it back up and what to i see in my inbox 2 emails from them saying that i had a trojan and they were shuting me down both mailed after they had cut me off. the best part is they made me paid for the time i was cut off! good old rogers

Fourtyrulz

That's the first thing that I thought too. But luckily here on campus there's no shortage of computer labs, so I just ran downstairs to check my email and there it was. It's perfectly legit too, just last month I had to help a friend reformat his computer after getting a similar email.

Dilbert,
Doesn't this kind of stuff just piss you off? I have 2 firewalls and Symantec antivirus which is managed by the universities resnet but yet I still managed to get some lame ass trojan. The way I see it, they screwed up not me!

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Dilbert1234567

yeah it sucks its realy ovious what systems are doing it, we can find them in under 30 sec of looking, they are spamming like crazy.

basicly they are right, the trojan gives outsiders full control, remove all inportant files and reformat the thing.

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d3cemberist

I once got hit with one of those. It was a bitch to remove..