what is file: "ptsnoop"??

this is present in my startup, and sounds quite odd--what
is this application and what does it do??

thanks,
allyson

PTSnoop can be either a backdoor trojan or part of your modem driver set.
If your antivirus program is not detecting it, think modem.

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this is present in my startup, and sounds quite odd--what
is this application and what does it do??

thanks,
allyson

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 10:56:06 -0700, "allyson"
wrote:

this is present in my startup, and sounds quite odd--what
is this application and what does it do??

thanks,
allyson


I should think without doing a websearch, that it is either
spywa ptSNOOP, or a preventative proggie.

Web search result: Yep, a backdoor virus.

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Read he

http://www.conexant.com/support/pctel_faqs.html#q13

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I should think without doing a websearch, that it is either
spywa ptSNOOP, or a preventative proggie.

Web search result: Yep, a backdoor virus.

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 17:53:08 -0400, "Richard G. Harper"
wrote:

Read he

http://www.conexant.com/support/pctel_faqs.html#q13

I sit corrected.

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This is not a virus, it is part of your McAFee virus scan
system.I was told by an MSN technical support person it
was it was and went hours of mumbel jumble.
I repeat it is not a virus it is part of Mcafee virus
scan.
-----Original Message-----
this is present in my startup, and sounds quite odd--what
is this application and what does it do??

thanks,
allyson
.

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:16:14 -0700, "Paula"
wrote:

This is not a virus, it is part of your McAFee virus scan
system.I was told by an MSN technical support person it
was it was and went hours of mumbel jumble.
I repeat it is not a virus it is part of Mcafee virus
scan.
-----Original Message-----
this is present in my startup, and sounds quite odd--what
is this application and what does it do??

thanks,
allyson
.



Thou mayest want to rethink that.

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100820.htm

This detection is for a remote access trojan written in
MSVB. There are multiple versions of the trojan.

The trojan is intended to download pages from specific URLs,
all within the following domain:

CJB.NET

Upon execution, the trojan copies itself to %SysDir% using a
misleading filename. For example:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\PTSNOOP.EXE

An entry is added to the WIN.INI file to hook system
startup:

[windows]
"load" = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\PTSNOOP.EXE

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