Question About Anti-Vi Soft Definitions

[tyger_claw]

Hey All,

Was going over an old laptop today and came across two viruses.
Spanska.GR3 and HackBBS.kit
(This is information I recieved from McAfee Anti-Vi on a full system scan)

When heading over to both McAfee.com and Norton.com and checking the virus information, I don't get anything.

The most similar virus information for Spanska.GR3 was Spanska.4015 (or sorts)
(The only Spanska virii that's memory resident)

And nothing for the HackBBS.kit (although I know it's a rootkit virii)

So what gives? Why would the site's virus database not have viruses that their .dat definition files recognize?

The only thing I can think of is the virus is so old that they removed it from the www database

Am I right or does someone else know what's going on...?

Main reason I ask this is to get full information for removal of the viruses
(ie: registry key removals, dead files, attribed files....)

[MrLinus]

I was taking a look and I wonder if they found the true names of the viruses and forgot to leave their original alias. The Spanska seems related to a variant of the Happy99 virus while HackBBS is a trojan of types.

[shadow_dancer]

helloo,

i think i knew about those Viruses ( Spanska.GR3 and HackBBS.kit ).
For Spanska.GR1, Spanska.GR2, Spanska.GR3 are aliases for W32/Ska@m .
And about HackBBS.kit is Trojan Virus, and this virus infected for EXE files.

Have you ever tried Norton Anti-Virus Corporate Edition mate 7.6 servers or 8.0 ? I run that Anti-Vi on my computer ( OS Win2000 adv Svr ) .. and till now i never infected by those viruses.

Here's an information abaout W32/Ska@m . And about HackBBS Trojan virus, perhaps you can downloah in here for the Anti_Vi. ( hope it is right to clean that virus )

Good Luck

[DjM]

Here is some information I found at Trend Micro regarding the Spanska:

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/viru..._SKA.A&VSect=T

It appears the Spanska might be the name of the Virus writter.

Symantec had this information on the HackBBS:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com...dyn/25049.html

And Pest Patrol had this:

http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/db/h/hackbbs_0_2.asp

Hope this helps.

Cheers: