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Anybody know what these viruses do? Proteus 07-17-2005
Posted by Proteus on July 17, 2005, 11:58 am
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Clam Antivirus scan of MS-WindowsXP system found two nasties:
Trojan.Scapur12
Virtool.Collector
Anybody know what these two viruses are and what they do? I can not find any
information on them using google or typing them in at McAffee site virus
search.


Posted by Kevin Reiter on July 17, 2005, 8:45 pm
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Proteus wrote:
> Clam Antivirus scan of MS-WindowsXP system found two nasties:
> Trojan.Scapur12
> Virtool.Collector
> Anybody know what these two viruses are and what they do? I can not find any
> information on them using google or typing them in at McAffee site virus
> search.

For Virtool.Collector:
http://viruspool.vanderkooij.org/virus.cms?&id=228768

Trojan.Scapur12 wasn't found anywhere...


Posted by Proteus on July 17, 2005, 8:18 pm
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Kevin Reiter wrote:
> For Virtool.Collector:
> http://viruspool.vanderkooij.org/virus.cms?&id=228768
....

How can i figure out what virtool.collector does (how it might have harmed
the system, what info it gathers, etc)?


Posted by SJ on July 18, 2005, 5:30 pm
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Proteus wrote:
> Kevin Reiter wrote:
>
>>For Virtool.Collector:
>>http://viruspool.vanderkooij.org/virus.cms?&id=228768
>
> ...
>
> How can i figure out what virtool.collector does (how it might have harmed
> the system, what info it gathers, etc)?


Try to run it in a sandbox...

SJ


Posted by Patrick Sullivan on July 19, 2005, 4:46 pm
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You can look at startups sites that collect info on all sorts of progams
that would show up as running after boot in Windows. do a google on windows
startups. Castlecops.com has a nice collection.

> Kevin Reiter wrote:
> > For Virtool.Collector:
> > http://viruspool.vanderkooij.org/virus.cms?&id=228768
> ...
>
> How can i figure out what virtool.collector does (how it might have harmed
> the system, what info it gathers, etc)?




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