Well, I have been sitting here running the scan for 5 hours and the freeware version of Ad-Aware found nothing.
It could be that on this system, the trojan cleaned up after itself as this is the one that I gave it internet access; or, it could be that the freeware version of Ad-Aware does not yet detect the trojan.
I've given up hours of sleep over several days with this trojan.
Manouvering into prosecuting the trojan poster is proving difficult, due to the multi-national scope of this. However, it seems the easy way forward is via the FBI which is via The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3): http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
I like their website and the whole complaint process seems easy and well explained.
Technically, they seem to want the complainant (or the suspect(s)) to be a US citizen. However, they do not make this initially obvious - I found it in the FAQs:
However, we can probably get around this - more than likely there will be at least one US Blitzer who has been affected. Plus, baring in mind the scope of this, I think they will be interested in pursuing the case or at least advising us of who to contact.
The point is, all the evidence is in the trojan. It is not a case of proving what the suspect(s) stole - we already know exactly what they attempted to steal from every single person that ran the file. This particular trojan doesn't just open up a back door whereby a hacker MAY come and visit and steal something - or it MAY upload something at a later date; it grabs everything it can straight away and sends it on its way.
No contact will be made yet - this all just in the planning stage. I will not soldier on until various parties have been consulted. Baring in mind that some people may just want me to forget about this whole thing and just let it go.
What do we have to lose in turning in the suspect(s)? We cannot just lie down at let someone get away with this. It is not like we are telling tales or grassing on people - we are reporting serious crime(s) that have been carried out over many weeks. Soldiering on and reporting this is the right thing to do.
I took the risk of running the trojan live to find out what it did for the benefit of the 40+ people who had already downloaded and run it and didn't know what kind of damage it had done.
Looking at the FBI and US Department of Justice press releases, they are succesfully prosecuting people that spread trojans for criminal use. Under US law they have been putting them in prison.
If someone can get people prosecuted for cyber-bullying in a chat-room, then we can win this case.
It could be that on this system, the trojan cleaned up after itself as this is the one that I gave it internet access; or, it could be that the freeware version of Ad-Aware does not yet detect the trojan.
I've given up hours of sleep over several days with this trojan.
Manouvering into prosecuting the trojan poster is proving difficult, due to the multi-national scope of this. However, it seems the easy way forward is via the FBI which is via The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3): http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
I like their website and the whole complaint process seems easy and well explained.
Technically, they seem to want the complainant (or the suspect(s)) to be a US citizen. However, they do not make this initially obvious - I found it in the FAQs:
If one of the two parties involved is located within the United States, please feel free to file a complaint.
However, we can probably get around this - more than likely there will be at least one US Blitzer who has been affected. Plus, baring in mind the scope of this, I think they will be interested in pursuing the case or at least advising us of who to contact.
The point is, all the evidence is in the trojan. It is not a case of proving what the suspect(s) stole - we already know exactly what they attempted to steal from every single person that ran the file. This particular trojan doesn't just open up a back door whereby a hacker MAY come and visit and steal something - or it MAY upload something at a later date; it grabs everything it can straight away and sends it on its way.
No contact will be made yet - this all just in the planning stage. I will not soldier on until various parties have been consulted. Baring in mind that some people may just want me to forget about this whole thing and just let it go.
What do we have to lose in turning in the suspect(s)? We cannot just lie down at let someone get away with this. It is not like we are telling tales or grassing on people - we are reporting serious crime(s) that have been carried out over many weeks. Soldiering on and reporting this is the right thing to do.
I took the risk of running the trojan live to find out what it did for the benefit of the 40+ people who had already downloaded and run it and didn't know what kind of damage it had done.
Looking at the FBI and US Department of Justice press releases, they are succesfully prosecuting people that spread trojans for criminal use. Under US law they have been putting them in prison.
If someone can get people prosecuted for cyber-bullying in a chat-room, then we can win this case.