BO2K info page
BO2K or Back Orifice 2000 is a trojan horse. That’s a program that masquerades as being harmless. Trojan horses are not technically viruses, but they can be equally destructive. Probably the worst kind is a program that says it has cleaned your computer of viruses but infects your computer with one.
BO2K is the latest in a line of Trojans. The program’s makers—the Cult of the Dead Cow – claim that it is a legitimate tool in that it can be used for good administrative tasks as well as bad intentions. The problem is that the cDc has little credibility in the programming world and have earned no trust among the mainstream code development community.
More about Trojan Horses on TechnologyTips’s Trojan Horse page
Remove BO2K (and other Trojans) with The Cleaner available from: Moosoft
More Virus Links
- TechnologyTips explains Back Orifice 2000
- TechnologyTips’s [[Anti-Virus Links Centre]]
- F-Secure’s BO2K 2000 web page
- BO2K home page
- Symantec’s Anti Virus Research Centre
- BO2K FAQ
- Symantec’s Back Orifice page
Software that will detect Trojan horses
- Moosoft’s The Cleaner
- Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit Buy it!
- F-Secure Internet Security 2007 Buy it!
- InoculateIT
- McAfee VirusScan Buy it!
- Norton AntiVirus Buy it!
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