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In a message dated 4/15/99 5:42:51 PM Mountain Daylight Time, ajr@ECUA.NET.ec
writes:

<< In the meantime:

 * Could the culprit have self-installed from downloaded files?
 * How to detect it, without going paranoid and manually checking all
 around, all the time ?
 * Worst, who pays for it ?
 * While it is true my ISP has implemented online password protected
 Connect Time Statistics for all users, can one argue that their effort
 has not been sufficient?.  Should my ISP implement controls such as?: >>

Dear Ana-Julia,

The program you may be thinking of is Back Orifice (there's another - Netbus
which works on a similar principle and can affect both windows and unix
machines)....I haven't seen any programs self-download and then *also* self
execute on an individual computer.... however, there are reports (*very* few
I should add) of these programs affecting ISP's.

<>
We've posted some info and many links for info about BO and Netbus... you
might want to visit our pages (listed below).  As far as ISP liability?  Did
you find the culprit on *your* computer?  If you've looked at your registry,
etc., and the source of the problem isn't at your end, you may want to
re-visit with your ISP.


BTW- you may also want to look around the pages I do volunteer work with -
although designed primarily for the AOL user, there's good info for all...

Patty
VWA
home page:
http://members.aol.com/pattyoh105/links.htm
VWA home page
http://members.aol.com/mjmvwa
Back Orifice and Netbus
http://members.aol.com/mjmvwa/bo.htm