Trojans and removable media

[Rage Skywolfe]

I just had a couple of disks analysized for viruses as well as other things
both are cds and both have mp3 songs that I have gotten from various sources.
mostly from either friends or limewire. the question I have is they found
three files that were identified as Trojans in their scanners. the file names
are setuprevelation.exe,setuprevelationV2.0.zip and keyfinder.2.0.1.zip I
have done searches on my computer and haven't found anything as far as actual
files go. now I have played different songs from both of those disks most of
the time and I am wondering is is it possible for things like this to spread
to other cds that are inserted into the drive or do they just remain on the
computer. and also would it spread to the windows operating system disk that
you use to do reformats and repairs.

 

[R. McCarty]

CD's are read-only so it's not possible for infections to move to
other CDs. The infected CDs can propagate to the computer's
hard drives depending on the content and how it's accessed.

Personally I despise Limewire. On almost every machine where I
get called in to repair and Limewire is installed the machine is 100%
guaranteed to be infected. The service itself isn't the problem but it's
a gateway to unlimited infected content that people knowingly get
and use.

 

[BillW50]

In Rage Skywolfe typed on Wed, 13 May 2009 13:54:11 -0700:

I just had a couple of disks analysized for viruses as well as other
things both are cds and both have mp3 songs that I have gotten from
various sources. mostly from either friends or limewire. the question
I have is they found three files that were identified as Trojans in
their scanners. the file names are
setuprevelation.exe,setuprevelationV2.0.zip and keyfinder.2.0.1.zip I
have done searches on my computer and haven't found anything as far
as actual files go. now I have played different songs from both of
those disks most of the time and I am wondering is is it possible
for things like this to spread to other cds that are inserted into
the drive or do they just remain on the computer. and also would it
spread to the windows operating system disk that you use to do
reformats and repairs. --
Four Generations Of Trust And Betrayal...One Legacy

Skywolfe

As long as the other computer(s) that are running Windows has an
up-to-date antivirus checker, I don't see the harm. Although any Windows
system that doesn't see them as viruses, I would be very worried! But
then again, you can always reburn and remove the viruses.

 

[Rage Skywolfe]

that is what I wondered. the reason I had them analyze it is because computer
shops usualy have tools that can find things that other programs don't I
haven't had a virus scanner yet that has picked up anything from a cd unless
it actually has something on it like if it were to have the eicar test file
on there it would pick it up. the one disk I had was clean by their scanners
but the other one had those files on it. the thing that I am wondering is
where it is because like I said they are mp3 files from my computers view and
not exe or zip files. so knowing exactly where it would be would be the hard
part. I have not had limewire on the computer for months and when I did have
it I onlly downloaded music files to begin with. but that is what I was
wondering mainly is if it is on the computer if it is possible for it to
spread to a cd. I think the windows disk would probably be safe from anything
but I have never been sure.. I have tested different mp3 files that I have
had from my disks against online scanners even and they haven't found
anything either. so if anyone knows of a program that can help me identify
things that others miss please let me know.
--
Four Generations Of Trust And Betrayal...One Legacy

Skywolfe

CD's are read-only so it's not possible for infections to move to
other CDs. The infected CDs can propagate to the computer's
hard drives depending on the content and how it's accessed.

Personally I despise Limewire. On almost every machine where I
get called in to repair and Limewire is installed the machine is 100%
guaranteed to be infected. The service itself isn't the problem but it's
a gateway to unlimited infected content that people knowingly get
and use.

 

[Rage Skywolfe]

on most of the antivirus programs I have had, they haven't detected anything
on media disks only on the hard drive itself. online scanners are the same
way as there aren't any that I know of that will let you scan anything on a
cd except for an individual file. if there is something that would scan the
entire cd that is what I am looking for. as the programs that I have aren't
picking up anything.but other systems seem to detect it fine if they have the
right tools to do so.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Benefits & Risks of P2P File Sharing
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/downloads/filesharing.mspx

 

[Rage Skywolfe]

thanks for the link I am wondering though, there is a link to the electronic
frontier foundation but I don't see anything in relation to p2p in there at
least not yet anyway.
--
Four Generations Of Trust And Betrayal...One Legacy

Skywolfe

 

[Rage Skywolfe]

ao you are saying that they absoluetly know they are downloading
trojans,rootkits,etc when they download files?
--
Four Generations Of Trust And Betrayal...One Legacy

Skywolfe

CD's are read-only so it's not possible for infections to move to
other CDs. The infected CDs can propagate to the computer's
hard drives depending on the content and how it's accessed.

Personally I despise Limewire. On almost every machine where I
get called in to repair and Limewire is installed the machine is 100%
guaranteed to be infected. The service itself isn't the problem but it's
a gateway to unlimited infected content that people knowingly get
and use.