| On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:44:22 +0000, Budgie wrote:
|
| Should be. Litmus is tiny and as it's a trojan, it doesn't self-replicate
| / infect other files. Delete what you know you have reported as Litmus,
| then run another scan to make sure. Preferably, download another AV
| scanner (<
http://www.complex.is/> is highly recommended[1]) and scan with
| your normal AV and the newly downloaded one to make sure there is nothing
| remaining. Litmus isn't "dangerous" as such.. not like a mass-mailing worm
| might be.. although IIRC, it can be used to make a "botnet" for IRC which
| can then be issued to commit DDoS attacks on hosts. Anyways, the cleaning
| of Litmus is definitely one of the easier ones =)
Many thanks. Trojan appears to have disappeared, hopefully never to be seen
again!
Budgie