PhatBot Trojan Spreading Rapidly On Windows PCs

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 17, 2004 @07:43AM from the what-and-lose-all-my-pigeons dept.

prostoalex writes "The Washington Post alerts Windows users about a new peer-to-peer backdoor client that is installed maliciously on broadband-connected computers around Asia and the United States. The client is then used for distributed DOS attacks and sending out large amounts of spam. Phatbot, according to government sources, is installed on hundreds of thousands machines already. Phatbot snoops for passwords on infected computers and tries to disable firewall and antivirus software, albeit it is detectable by antivirus packages." An anonymous reader submits a link to this description of the beast.

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Detection/Removal instructions? by rritterson · 2004-03-17 07:53 · Score: 0, Redundant

I'm too lazy to go find them myself- so:

Has anyone come across a removal tool and/or removal instructions? They would be helpful for future reference.

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Learn to accept it by 0xCOFFEE · 2004-03-17 08:41 · Score: 0, Redundant

It won't go away, unfortunately
Re:nice features list by AcmeShells.com · 2004-03-17 08:45 · Score: 0, Redundant

They do have an os like that. Its called Linux

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