Trojan Simulator

Discussion in 'Software' started by studiot, Jul 14, 2007.

  1. studiot

    studiot MajorGeek

    Interested in reports from Geeks with other Antivirus software.

    Norton found it as soon as I unzipped the file, before I actually installed it. However it said it 'was unable to repair this file'.

    http://www.misec.net/trojansimulator
     
    studiot, Jul 14, 2007
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  2. studiot

    studiot MajorGeek

    Is no one else prepared to try this?
     
    studiot, Jul 15, 2007
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  3. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi Studiot

    Sorry I did read your thread but as usual got massively side tracked, good job you bumped it up just now, so as I'm game for these things I ran the test, well kinda I didnt as Avast was very good in not allowing me to fully download this, may have been due to my net connection being slow today, but it halted the DL @ 95%


    http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/3539/untitledcm1.jpg


    but I tried again, as soon as my connection was back to normal DL speeds, and it downloaded ok as it is a small file, this time when extracting the ZIP Avast again picks this up and deletes it ok, from the extracted folder, you do still have the original zip but as your AV has alerted you to this being malware, we all would delete this zip.

    http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/8006/untitledzm9.jpg


    So good show for Avast.
     
    DavidGP, Jul 15, 2007
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  4. studiot

    studiot MajorGeek

    Thanks, Halo and very interesting as I will be transfering to Avast today or tomorrow when the current Norton subscription runs out.

    I actually received my copy of the test trojan from a commercial information service I subscribe to. It came on their July CD and the web address I posted was in the readme.txt file. I just looked to see if it was a kosher site.
     
    studiot, Jul 16, 2007
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  5. TheDuality

    TheDuality Private E-2

    NOD picks it up nicely... although when downloaded via a download accelerator, it picks it up at the end of the download, yet the download still completes and the file remains on the system confused
     
    TheDuality, Jul 16, 2007
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  6. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    NO Probs, thought some more would have tried this out for you on other AVs ( Cheers TheDuality for jumping in with NOD and its findings ) to get an overall picture of the popular AVs,

    Would be nice to see how AVG, McAfee pick this up, plus I tested this with MS OneCare v2.0 beta and it fails to alert you at extraction of the zip and allows you to install this harmless but test app, Now writing a bug report for the OneCare team on this, even being a test, it should have been picked up like Avast and NOD.
     
    DavidGP, Jul 16, 2007
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  7. shanemail

    shanemail Fold On

    Avast worked beautifully when trying to unzip the file after manual download

    And when downloaded through flashget, avast detects malware straight after the download completes
    The zip file is left on the system but it only contains a readme (the malware has been removed)
    chances are Nod does the same ?

    Interesting test - thanks Studiot
     
    shanemail, Jul 16, 2007
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  8. baklogic

    baklogic The Tinkerer

    Yes, Avast does the job.
    I had a computer to sort out that had the vodu virus, and the norton tool did not remove it, but the free version of Comodo antivirus found it and took it out, I never use Norton anymore, have not for years.
     
    baklogic, Jul 16, 2007
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  9. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    After looking into another malware issue, I ran the trojan sim file through http://virusscan.jotti.org/ which used all the majors def files, and got his result, interesting.

     
    DavidGP, Jul 16, 2007
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  10. studiot

    studiot MajorGeek

    Hope the Malware crew are noting this, I posted in 'software' to allow/promote a discussion.

    Impressive testing, Halo.

    I will run my favourite antispy/anti trojan tonight - xoftspy and report on that one tomorrow.
     
    studiot, Jul 16, 2007
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  11. BirdBath

    BirdBath Sergeant Major

    BirdBath, Jul 16, 2007
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  12. studiot

    studiot MajorGeek

    Just changed over from Norton to Avast.

    Avast found it on the first system scan and gave 10 options for dealing with it.

    Xoftspy failed to find it, disappointingly.
     
    studiot, Jul 17, 2007
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  13. bigbazza

    bigbazza R.I.P. 14/12/2011 - Good Onya Geek

    Thanks studiot and Halo for input to this thread, and other MG'ers who contributed to our knowledge. :major Bazza
     
    bigbazza, Jul 17, 2007
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  14. Goran.P

    Goran.P MajorGeek

    :cry:cry:cryZone SS not find the trojan simulator,either on DL and install.:cry:cry:cry:boxing:boxing:mad:***
     
    Goran.P, Jul 18, 2007
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