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From: Jim Stewart on 11 Mar 2010 14:14
D Yuniskis wrote:
> Mickel wrote:
>> "D Yuniskis" <not.going.to.be(a)seen.com> wrote in message
>> news:hn9g1s$jk6$1(a)speranza.aioe.org...
>>> How do you know it calls *out* and doesn't just open 7777 and
>>> *wait* for an incoming connection?
>>
>> Possibly but considering even basic home routers have nat these days
>> it wouldn't be very effective. So pretty much it would do nothing.
>>
>>> Regardless, a virus scan would/should have noticed the payload.
>>
>> Why? Unless it is a know virus it's unlikely to get picked up.
>
> In two years it remained hidden?
> No one ever ran TCPview?

No, but I ran Topview once...
From: keithr on 11 Mar 2010 14:45
Jim Stewart wrote:
> D Yuniskis wrote:
>> Mickel wrote:
>>> "D Yuniskis" <not.going.to.be(a)seen.com> wrote in message
>>> news:hn9g1s$jk6$1(a)speranza.aioe.org...
>>>> How do you know it calls *out* and doesn't just open 7777 and
>>>> *wait* for an incoming connection?
>>>
>>> Possibly but considering even basic home routers have nat these days
>>> it wouldn't be very effective. So pretty much it would do nothing.
>>>
>>>> Regardless, a virus scan would/should have noticed the payload.
>>>
>>> Why? Unless it is a know virus it's unlikely to get picked up.
>>
>> In two years it remained hidden?
>> No one ever ran TCPview?
>
> No, but I ran Topview once...

Jeeze you're old :)

Most people did only run it once.
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