Breath Of Fire


· Overview ·
· Origins ·
· Operation ·
· Detection and Removal ·
· Research ·



Overview

Summary:

Yahoo! exploit.

Category:

Exploit: A way of breaking into a system. An exploit takes advantage of a weakness in a system in order to hack it. Exploits are the root of the hacker culture. Hackers gain fame by discovering an exploit. Others gain fame by writing scripts for it. Legions of script-kiddies apply the exploit to millions of systems, whether it makes sense or not. Since people make the same mistakes over-and-over, exploits for very different systems start to look very much like each other. Most exploits can be classified under major categories: buffer overflow, directory climbing, defaults, Denial of Service.

Variants:

  • Breath Of Fire 2.0
  • Breath Of Fire 3.0
  • Similar Pests:

    Exploit

    Origins

    Group:

    PyRo InC.

    By This Group:

    Breath Of Fire 2.0 ·

    Date of Origin:

    Variants from November, 2003 to November, 2003

    Operation

    Storage Required:

  • Breath Of Fire 2.0: at least 313 KB
  • Breath Of Fire 3.0: at least 285 KB
  • Detection and Removal

    Automatic Removal:

    PestPatrol detects this.

    PestPatrol removes this.



    Manual Removal:

    Follow these steps to remove Breath Of Fire from your machine. Begin by backing up your registry and your system, and/or setting a Restore Point, to prevent trouble if you make a mistake.
    Stop Running Processes:

    Kill these running processes with Task Manager:

    Remove Files:

    Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:

    Research

    File Analyses:

    More Info:

  • AllTheWeb, AltaVista, AOL Search, Ask Jeeves, Google, HotBot, Lycos, LookSmart, MSN, Yahoo!
  • Research By:

  • PestPatrol's Pest Research Center
  • Last Revised:

    April 15, 2005