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Posted by Steven L Umbach on January 22, 2006, 12:37 pm
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questionable I would not run them and delete them unless the computer is a
"test box" where you are trying things out and if bad things happen it is
not big deal because I can reboot and all changes are lost or I can
reinstall from an image quickly. I went to the link and think that the value
of the proposed test is very minimal and would not worry about it. What you
want to make sure is that your firewall is stopping inbound traffic that was
not in response to network traffic initiated by your computer known by you
or not. Popular sites such as http://scan.sygatetech.com/ can do a good job
of such. --- Steve
>I found this site:
>
> http://www.firewallleaktester.com/
>
> and downloaded all the test programs.
>
> Some observations:
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> 1. McAfee would not save copycat.exe, saying it contained a trojan
> (Generic.f), and file opr03r00.exe was deleted.
>
> 2. A McAfee virus scan reported that the following are "Potentially
> Unwanted Programs" (PUPs):
>
> Demo-Leak Test (firehole.exe)
> Demo-Leaktest 12 (leaktest1.2.exe)
> Outbound (outbound.exe)
> Demo-Leak Test (tooleaky.exe)
> Yalta, yalta.vxd (yalta.zip)
>
> 3. AdAware SE reported Spyware PC Audit as a critical program, with a
> TAC reading of 10 (whatever that is).
>
> 4. Spybot S&D and CWShredder reported nothing unusual.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Is it safe to run these? (Running XP Home with both the SPs and all the
> updates).
>
> --
> Ian
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