FALSE ALARM -- Re: [omniORB] VIRUS ALERT: BackDoor-G2.cfg TrojanHorse detected in omniORB_280 _x86_win32.zip

[Kelvin Lim]

 That was my speculation when I first read the post about the back door virus. These days, anti-virus software are too paraniod for their own good, not to mention greedy on memory.

I never use anti-virus products, waste of time and money ! 



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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:20:42   Michael J. Donahue wrote:
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>Sorry All -
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>It appears that McAfee had a bug in the definitions files that incorrectly
>reported a virus attached to the OMNIORB280_RTD.DLL.  After seeing Armin's
>e-mail I downloaded the 10 october 2000 version and the problem went away.
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>This is the first time I've ever been bit by being carefull.  ;-)
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>Thanks to Armin and Sai-Lai for taking the time to check this.
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>- Mike
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>Sai-Lai Lo <S.Lo@uk.research.att.com> on 10/25/2000 10:58:03 AM
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>To:   Michael J. Donahue/MCLEOD@MCLEOD
>cc:   omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com
>Subject:  Re: [omniORB] VIRUS ALERT: BackDoor-G2.cfg Trojan Horse detected in
>      omniORB_280 _x86_win32.zip
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>Hi! On receiving your email, I've download omniORB_280_x86_win32.zip from
>ftp.uk.research.att.com and have checked this file and the unpacked files
>using Norton Anti-Virus. This is using the latest virus information file.
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>NOTHING SHOWS UP!
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>Is this a false alarm or Norton is unable to detect this virus? By the way,
>what does "BackDoor-G2.cfg" do? I can only find reference to "BackDoor-G2".
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>Sai-Lai
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>>>>>> Michael J Donahue writes:
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>> All -
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>> After downloading a new update to my Anti-Virus sofware last night, I
>> detected the BackDoor-G2.cfg virus in the OMNIORB280_RTD.DLL from the
>> omniORB_280_x86_win32.zip file.
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>> To make I then cleaned my system of the virus, and re-downloaded this zip
>> file.  Before the file was completely downloaded, McAfee detected the
>> same virus on the same file within the omniORB_280_x86_win32.zip file.
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>> I'm very surprised noone else has caught this one, but I'm fairly sure it
>> has been present in the omniORB_280_x86_win32.zip file since at least
>> March 15th, 2000.
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>> - Mike Donahue
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>> McAfee VShield 4.0.3
>> Definitions:   4.0.4099
>> Date:               10/11/2000
>> Scan Engine:   4.0.70
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