Data Fellows warns of Back Orifice 2000

New trojan will be detected as soon as it is released

Espoo, Finland, July 8, 1999. - Data Fellows, one of the world’s leading developers of anti-virus and encryption software, is warning computer users about Back Orifice 2000, a new version of the Back Orifice backdoor trojan.

Written by the Cult of The Dead Cow, BO2K allows outsiders to access and modify any information on a Windows 95, 98 and NT machine through an invisible server program installed by the program. It also allows outsiders to spy on what the user is doing.

BO2K is expected to be announced during the Def Con 7 conference in Las Vegas in July 1999 (http://www.defcon.org). It is expected to be released a week or two after that.

Data Fellows added detection and removal of it to F-Secure Anti-Virus within hours after a sample of the program was received. The detection and removal of BO2Kis provided, as usual, as a free update to all users of FSAV.

Data Fellows F-Secure Anti-Virus software

F-Secure Anti-Virus is the first anti-virus solution to use two virus scanning programs in one. Based on the simple principle of what one scan may miss, another will find, F-Secure Anti-Virus is claimed to have far better virus detection rates than the competition. Available in network and single-user versions, it provides automatic reporting, alerting and quarantine for the virus.

Further information is available on our web site
http://www.F-Secure.com/v-descs/bo2k.shtml
An illustration of BO2K will be available (when the program has been released) at http://www.F-Secure.com/virus-info/v-pics/