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Posted by David H. Lipman on May 9, 2008, 4:04 pm
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| Hello,
| I have had a message from Norton (on 3 recent occasions) reporting that it
| has blocked an attack by the irc.backdoor.trojan.
| At the same time I found my irc software (Mirc 6.16) suddenly stopped
| working, the exe file disappeared. (I have managed to get it going again by
| re-installing)
| I have googled this virus, it seems to be very old ?? circa 2006 ?
| Has there been a new version developed. ?
| Any advice / info warmly welcomed
| Thanks
| KK
The name "irc.backdoor.trojan" is a generic name so there can be many variants.
Additionally the name implies it is a trojan and not a virus and 2006 is NOT
"very old".
In this case consider this dectection to be part of a family and thus the date
means
little.
The question then is what is the file(s) that were deemed infected. Suppliying
a sample
to Virus Total may gleem more specific information on this trojan.
As for new versions... sure. New variants in a family are always being created
and/or
derived and that's why you have a generic detection name.
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
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