Backdoors and Trojans

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Oct 21, 2003 | 09:13 PM

LB4

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What is it with these Trojans always trying to sneak in back doors, what are they, where do they come from, where is this door they keep trying to get in?

Help!!!

Gary

Oct 21, 2003 | 09:20 PM

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This might be a good read for starters http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/security/trojan.html

Basically, they are bits of software that get on your PC through a variety of means that open up your machine to outside (ab)use.

Oct 21, 2003 | 09:22 PM

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I got wiped out by one before I got proper firewall installed.

Like many others seem to say, when I'm on Scoobynet it seems my backdoor gets a lot of attempted intrusions