LimeWire Trojan removal.

From: Dom De Vitto (Domat_private)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 13:48:23 PST

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    Here goes:
    To clean up LimeWire 2.0.2 you need to:
    + kill any running adp.exe and bargins.exe processes.
    + Remove the \program files\adp\ directory
    + Remove the \program files\Bargain Buddy\ directory
    + Remove the entry for adp.exe and bargins.exe from HK_LOCAL_MACHINE..run.
    + Remove HK_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\adp\ (the cheek!)
    + Install & run Lavasoft Add-Aware 5.62 (it doesn't seem to spot "Ad
    Popper")
    + Check any personal firewall logs for oddities.
    + Run LimeWire - javaw
    + Check any personal firewall logs for oddities.
    
    Dom (no relation to ad-aware, btw)
    NB. It looks like Ad Popper calls:
    http://adp.ikena.com/update.asp?partner=%s&type=software
    which returns the text:
    version=7378 url=http://adp.ikena.com:80/file/bbi7378.exe size=153957
    artifact=bbi7378.exe
    Which appears to be "Bargin Buddy", at least today it is.
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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Jonas M Luster [mailto:jluster@d-fensive.com]
    > Sent: 31 December 2001 20:48
    > To: vuln-devat_private
    > Subject: Re: Clicktilluwin DLDER Trojan
    >
    >
    > Quoting Michael Watson (mmwatsonat_private):
    >
    > > something weird is going on. maybe the limeware and kazaa
    > people got hacked
    > > and someone is having a little fun, or maybe they are
    > intentionally doing
    > > this for some reason. isn't there some kind of legal way for this to be
    >
    > They get paid for it. Smuggling ad-ware or spyware into seemingly free
    > applications is, well, common behavior.
    >
    > http://www.lavasoftusa.com/index.html can help.
    >
    



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