On Friday 24 August 2007 17:59, Jude DaShiell wrote: > how these trojans survive is by surviving operating system reinstalls. > The better trojans hide themselves in several out of the way places on > disks and after adjacent areas have got their new files copy themselves > back into the areas where no more disk wiping by the installer is about to > happen. Trojan file names get changed too whenever this happens too.
How would a trojan be activated to copy itself back if block zero was wiped, a new partitition table was installed, and new file systems created? Yes, an image of a trojan may still exist in the unused sectors of the first track of a partition, but how could it be activated? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
