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Spyware BackStealth Information
Name: BackStealth Category: Trojan Date: 2002-03-29 Dangerous: Yes

BackStealth is Trojan - spyware.
You should remove it from your system as soon as possible.

BackStealth description by publisher:

Vendor: ´allows to bypass the outbound protection of a Personal Firewall in order to establish a remote connection. BackTaketh is launched within the memory space allocated to your Firewall & thus does not appear to be a separate process. Such ´Taketh´ technique gives it full rights for access to the web, completely transparent & independant from all other programs. It connects to: & downloads the file saving it as: C:\retrieve.dat The tool will have no problem at all in accessing the web without any filter being applied from the firewall. The user, watching open connections will notice that the action seems to be carried out by the firewall itself!´

This Trojan is also known as:

•BackDoor-ANE - named by McAfee.
• security risk named W32/BackStealth11.A - named by F-Prot.

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BackStealth Removal Instructions
Kill the following processes backstealth.exe
Unregister the following DLLs and reboot backdll.dll.
Remove the following files backdll.dll, backstealth.exe, user_en.rtf, user_it.rtf.

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