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Quick question--Are all trojans malware?

"Tab" <> wrote in message
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> Quick question--Are all trojans malware?
Trojans are one class of malware.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...o/malware.mspx

"Tab" <> wrote in
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> Quick question--Are all trojans malware?


All but the ones you use to prevent child support and STD's.

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is when they break into your castle; make them be real quiet: "Shhhhh!"
Then tiptoe over and open the door... There's the monster, sound asleep.

Tab wrote:

> Quick question--Are all trojans malware?

There are "management trojans" used for remote install support and others,
like corporate inventory purposes.
One could see vnc server as a trojan as well (there is a checkbox to hide
the tray icon)
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"Walter Mautner" <> wrote in message
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> Tab wrote:
>
>> Quick question--Are all trojans malware?
>
> There are "management trojans" used for remote install support and others,
> like corporate inventory purposes.
> One could see vnc server as a trojan as well (there is a checkbox to hide
> the tray icon)
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>
I downloaded a file from an ebay seller and my avast Av found
Win32:Trojan-gen.{Delphi}in the file.Seller tells me to shut down Avast and
firewall and install the software and all will be ok.Im not sure if I should
do this.

Tab wrote:

> I downloaded a file from an ebay seller and my avast Av found
> Win32:Trojan-gen.{Delphi}in the file.Seller tells me to shut down Avast
> and firewall and install the software and all will be ok.Im not sure if I
> should do this.

Do a trend housecall scan, make a restore point, try to only unpack the
stuff (not yet install) and scan again with what you can get.
Most probably avast is giving a "gen"eric (false) alarm, but paranoia is
your friend.
When you finally install, do shut off avast and the firewall, but your
internet connection as well. Watch "netstat" output if it tries to connect
to somewhere, when nothing else requesting internet access is running. You
may have to start in "safe mode with networking" to completely get rid of
all the autoupdaters, for the test session.
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vista policy violation: Microsoft optical mouse found penguin patterns
on mousepad. Partition scan in progress to remove offending
incompatible products. Reactivate MS software.
Linux 2.6.17-mm1,Xorg7.1/nvidia [LinuxCounter#295241,ICQ#4918962]