Anti-Piracy Trojan

Written by Ernesto on May 16, 2006 

Trojan/Erazer-A is a new trojan that spreads through P2P networks. Apart from infecting your pc with malware and disabling anti-virus applications, it also actively deletes music, video’s and pictures from “shared folders’, used by p2p applications.

Amazing…

First the MPAA’s DVD sniffing dogs, now a trojan that’s targeting P2P content. Although the creators of the trojan are unknown until now, my guess is that the MPAA will be quite delighted.

Graham Cluley of Sophos, the company that discovered the virus, commented:

“The Erazer Trojan is a vigilante worthy of a Charles Bronson movie, taking the law into its own hands. However, it’s perfectly possible for the Trojan to aim poorly and wipe out innocent files too”.

As far as I know BitTorrent is safe, for now.

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15 Responses

1 May 16, 2006 at 21:07 by t d

MPAA SUCKS!
Even more now!

2 May 16, 2006 at 22:49 by Pariah

Reading stuff like that makes me want to go download a movie…

3 May 17, 2006 at 02:26 by Faker

LMAO!

I’ve been on the internet for 12 years without a SINGLE virus, worm or other beast.

MACS RULE!

4 May 17, 2006 at 21:53 by pipsta

man this sucks donkey arse… im glad i stopped using p2p… bittorrent is the road for me… MPAARSEHOLES YOU SUCK!!!

5 May 19, 2006 at 18:05 by mckello

f in twats

6 May 20, 2006 at 16:59 by Yatti420

Some kid went Anti-P2P most likely lol

7 May 21, 2006 at 04:50 by darklord

Those who created that trojan should be HANGED! I hope we’re gonna create a good anti-p2p trojan remover soon!

8 May 21, 2006 at 18:13 by Biker

you can sue their asses after proving the virus is from MPAA so they will prob keep their yappers shut; MPAA faggers haven’t got ballz big enough to confess..

9 May 31, 2006 at 19:50 by Jay

Bollocks, you can bet the recorn industry are behind this

10 Oct 07, 2006 at 02:33 by Phil

Would making shared files read-only help? Also it’s good to keep shared files already backed up, as well as non-shared ones. Keep P2P installers too in case you need to re-install. Be wary of P2P “patches”, and of course, very wary of downloaded exe files. Always check with good, preferrably free, updated anti-virus software. (ie AVG) Use security software, know what’s happening on your PC. ZoneAlarm is good; WinPatrol is another thing which can help. It monitors changes, which you can allow or reject. InstallSpy, SpybotSD, shredders, evidence eliminators; use ‘em all if you like. They don’t use much memory and can run quietly in the background. It’s no guarantee, but be smart and learn as much as you can. Remember, to them it’s all out war against consumers and PCs.

11 Dec 11, 2007 at 04:27 by Railfun

Ah, AVG, it was practically made to kill these attempts

12 Dec 30, 2007 at 18:30 by Jaxx

Faggot Macs suck, you suck and put proof to positive thinking on the matter… You should be tied to you mac and tossed into the deepest part of the ocean… Asscrack…

13 Jan 25, 2008 at 19:12 by A. Person

It wouldn’t suprise me if some poor sod at MPAArseholes wrote that trojan.

14 Jan 25, 2008 at 19:16 by A. Person

Also, if I can find out more about this trojan, I will attempt to create a removal tool.

15 May 01, 2008 at 04:32 by bumrocks

Macs don’t get viruses because nobody is stupid enough to waste their time. There are so few Macs out there that it would be a waste of time. It isn’t that a Mac can’t get one…It is just a waste of time to attack 5 people…

If you are trying to cause damage you obviously want to attack the masses…PC users.

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