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Subject: Warning! The freebie Joshie wants to act as a server

MarianneR opened this issue on Aug 04, 2002 ยท 69 posts


MarianneR posted Sun, 04 August 2002 at 5:17 PM

I downloaded Joshie on the Poser freebie page and it turns out to be an exe-file. I got suspicious and looked at it with a hex editor and found the name y3knetwork.com. At this web page they have a program called Y3K Remote Administration Tool Pro and Joshie.exe seems to be exactly that. When run it puts a program called server.exe in the Windows/System directory. I didn't allow it to access the internet (ZoneAlarm warned me) so I don't know what it does then. Quote from the y3knetwork web page: "What is Y3K Rat Pro? Y3K Remote Administration Tool Pro is a freeware product of Y3K Network, which give you the ability to control a remote or local computer system. For example, if you are at work, you can control your house' s computer system, so it is like you are at home, in front of the computer' s screen" Marianne