Destroyer 98


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



Overview

Summary:

Reboots a system after writing some code to autoexec.bat and upon viewing the html - if they have Advanced Power Management. Otherwise, it might crash the browser.

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.

Similar Pests:

Exploit

Origins

Author:

Discovered by Georgi Guninski. Modified by The Pull, Exxtreme, Stonefisk, Nicula Laurentiu, OsioniusX (OX),

By This Author:

Annihilate 98 · Annihilate NT · Destroyer NT · F You Avp · God Message · Godmessage · Trojan Runner 98 · Trojan Runner NT

Date of Origin:

October, 1999

Operation

Detection and Removal

Automatic Removal:

PestPatrol detects this.

PestPatrol removes this.



Research

More Info:

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

  • PestPatrol's Pest Research Center
  • Last Revised:

    October 30, 2004