Trojans

Arimus · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:33 am Post subject: Trojans

Just browsing slashdot while waiting for some scripts to complete at work and came across this story:-

Robin2 · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:03 am Post subject:

This has been extensively discussed on this forum, for example here
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Arimus · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:14 am Post subject:

Ah, lock this one then, I just noticed it while playing /.

classy56 · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject:

It is worrying that the units come with nasty infections, but as the units run under linux and there is no reason why you would execute an exe file on the unit from windows, I can't see any danger.
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Antoeknee · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Posts: 267

Now admitted by TT as infected with win32.Perlovga.A Trojan and TR/Drop.Small.qp.

Apparently its been reported that there is another malicious bit on the infected devices namely Backdoor.Win32.Small.lo which is more of a risk thatn the other two.

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

Probably no risk on the GO, but would be a risk to a PC when you make a backup.
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Antoeknee · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Posts: 267

Quote from Tweakers.net

This last piece of malware holds more risks for the user than the first two, and it's installed onto the system by Drop.Small.qp, just like Perlovga is. Especially annoying is the fact that this malware can be automatically run with the help of the autorun.inf file when the TomTom GO 910 is connected to the computer, making the risk larger than assumed at first.

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