PLasticSlug Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Im always saying how great overnet is on the dreamcast forum, but installing it again after i reformatted my hard drive, Norton discovered a virus called: backdoor.blarul. It erased the file and didnt complete the overnet installation. Just to let the rest of you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Eech. Thanks for the warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiffy Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 nice info there dude.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ugenn Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 All P2P networks have viruses and other such crap. The moral of the story is to only install software from trusted locations and within the confines of a restricted machine (properly patched, non-admin user account etc) if you're just testing out the software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floopy Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 I hate those nasty backdoor intrusions They're always trying to slip one in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntiWinner22 Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 What are you talking about? I have Overnet, and I run AVG and I haven't found anything! You got proof PlasticSlug? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancerx Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 me too, i ran avg and Mcafee 8.0 and didn´t show anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLasticSlug Posted February 24, 2004 Author Share Posted February 24, 2004 (edited) I shouldnt have to prove my self, i found what i found, but i did a google search on backdoor.blarul, you get a lot of results in other languages and crap, but here are some links, of people with the same problem they seem to be getting it from edonkey and overnet programs. Are your virus definitions updated? This dude did a scan with AVG and cant find it, here is the link Quote :Have you looked in the Virus Vault? It could be that the file was already quarantined by AVG. http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=h...0-0-.html&e=747 Another one translated from spanishhttp://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=3&q=h...253DUTF-8&e=747 The 1st and 9th review down found the same trojan got it from edonkey, overnet is conected to edonkey right...http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=15&q=...6687.html&e=747 SPanish translated sitehttp://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=4&q=h...253DUTF-8&e=747 Edited February 24, 2004 by PLasticSlug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntiWinner22 Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Nope. Ran Solo Antivirus, AVG, Avast, and Norton (all the best AntiVirus' there are) Jack. Didn't find jack. Ya sure that you didn't DOWNLOAD the virus? Where did you get the installer from? I just want proof so you don't defame the name that is Overnet, because I like the program a hell of a lot and we need as many people as we can get to share! Anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLasticSlug Posted February 24, 2004 Author Share Posted February 24, 2004 I got the virus when i downloaded it from overnet.com, When i downloaded the installer, overnet0.52.exe (could be the.52 version???). I then clicked to install it, which i was then able to do, and it went through all the set up features, and upon the last install part, norton caught the virus. It then gave me the only option of deleting the virus, which then lead to some of the files of overnet to not be there. about half in the folder did not get installed. I then called up my friend who's computer i also reformatted very recently and installed the norton 2003 and had her update all her definitions, but i turned off her auto protect (that continuously monitors her computer). so i guess it didnt catch it, i really dont know. So i then told her to do a virus scan on the overnet folder. Where Norton then found the same virus, because she already installed overnet and norton could not delete the virus. So i had her wipe the folder and all its contents with norton, and that’s where we left it, until we can check it again. I dont have anything against overnet, i got several gigs of dreamcast games from them, and im pissed off cause its gone, but for now im not going to use it, until norton says its clean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLasticSlug Posted February 24, 2004 Author Share Posted February 24, 2004 (edited) Check out the forums on overnet, here is one specifically on backdoor.blarul,http://forum.overnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=59130 The site seems to be littered with this.blarul problem Ill look into it in more detail. Here is the forum pagehttp://forum.overnet.com/ Here is a statment from overnet that there is no back door.http://forum.overnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=59191 Here is another anocement on the main page. 2.24.04: Virus HoaxThere is no virus or backdoor in Overnet or eDonkey2000. Norton antivirus is incorrectly detecting this. No other virus software is having problems with our exe. We have updated our exe so it no longer sets off Norton. So as of now, that could be the problem, and its quite possible, that their is no backdoor, or virus, but ill look more into it when i have time.Just advise to check the forums and other information on the site. The fourth page of the the of this link states that the if you download overnet, that when you download overnet, it will not set off norton. So i believe that i found this problem at the right place at the right time, as they were fixing it. http://forum.overnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=5...er=asc&start=75 Edited February 24, 2004 by PLasticSlug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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