The FBI wants your security info || Were you infected by the Badtrans virus??

seamus · 2001-12-18 16:53:57

The FBI wanted access to a huge database of info stolen by this virus. The people who ended up with it, released it into the public domain. Check it out yourself: http://www.dailyrotten.com/articles/archive/189387.html https://badtrans.monkeybrains.net/

18-12-2001 05:53PM

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seamus

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The FBI wanted access to a huge database of info stolen by this virus. The people who ended up with it, released it into the public domain.
Check it out yourself:

http://www.dailyrotten.com/articles/archive/189387.html

https://badtrans.monkeybrains.net/

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#2 18-12-2001 08:38PM

nahdoic

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holy crap ... that's bad.

time to change your passwords if you got infected by that thing.

I got infected it by it, but my trusty firewall never lets me down, and told me that this Kernel32 file was trying to access the net to send out my passwords ... download today www.zonelabs.com it's free at least it used to be ...

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#3 18-12-2001 08:55PM

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thats some good info there, by morning ill have about 500 people informed, thanks

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#4 20-12-2001 12:14AM

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the site is great for checking up
well done on finding it

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