I appreciate it
when people ask for documentation. It means that they're
still thinking... Great... So, this page is for you!
NOTE: Some of these links contain content which may
exaggerate,
understate, or be completely
false about the capabilities of
the BO client/server (trojan) and
possibly other things as well.
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The Microsoft® alert
(incorrectly downplays some of BO's effects):
http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/ms98-010.asp.
Internet Security Systems
(ISS) is essentially a software company selling various
levels of Network security packages. (And Microsoft® is one
of their customers!) The ISS XFORCE alert, dated August 6th,
1998:
http://www.iss.net/xforce/alerts/advise5.html.
Updated, September
10, 1998 as an ISS "Vulnerability" Alert:
http://www.iss.net/xforce/alerts/advise8.html.
A lot of good info
in this one (also covers the NetBus trojan).
TrendMicro press release (August 7, 1998):
http://www.antivirus.com/corporate/media/1998/pr080798.htm.
(Use their free "House Call" ActiveX/Java program to
check for viruses while online! It examines files inside of every known type
of archive/compressed file along with all other files on your computer's
hard drive(s):
Click on
the HouseCall icon on this page to get started.)
Symantec's (Norton) Anti-Virus Research Center
(SARC) :
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/warn/backorifice.html.
ZDNET's Jim Rapoza of PC Week Labs in PC WEEK
Online for August 10, 1998:
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/reviews/0810/10hack.html.
Digifriends's Trojan Horse page:
http://www.digifriends.com/dffocus/trojan_horses.shtml.
ABCNEWS.com (August 11, 1998):
PCHelp's extraordinary one-man show all about the BO and
NetBus trojans (a must see site for all the details):
http://www.nwi.net/~pchelp/bo.html.
CBSoftSolutions, Chris Benson's website: The author of
BoDetect:
http://www.spiritone.com/~cbenson/.