Is this legit? Win32 Spy.Swisyn.DS Trojan?

Discussion in 'ESET NOD32 Antivirus' started by Chris Rich, Nov 12, 2010.

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  1. Chris Rich

    Chris Rich Registered Member

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    I found Wilders as one of the very few sites with a hit on this trojan:
    Win32/Spy.Swisyn.DS Trojan
    https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=1783281

    It's apparently infected the .DLL of a very important SNMP monitor (PRTG) we use for watching when our local test server is stuck in a loop feeding our internet fax service (an experiment with metrofax that's very hard to undo end of the week mid-day with a skeleton crew of IT staff here) which has to be running if we're going to get through the day without issues.

    I'm sorta hoping someone can verify if this is a fresh definition/likely valid, because none of my other scanners are picking up the infection.

    Heck even some base info on mitigation would be great.. I considered a firewall but the SNMP service is looking at a zillion things on the network and they all trigger alerts (I'll be roasting our IT guy that set it up when he's back on Monday).. :p

    Thanks!
     
  2. jimwillsher

    jimwillsher Registered Member

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    Curious. I got a message today saying "infection in memory" and that PRTG was quarantined. I find this quite hard to believe since PRTG is installed on a server which is NEVER used for any interactive use (it's my server so I'm certain of that! - it runs HyperV VMs and nothing else).

    Sounds very much like a FP to me?


    Jim
     
  3. agoretsky

    agoretsky Eset Staff Account

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    Hello,

    The issue is under investigation by ESET's virus lab. Thank you for your reports.

    Regards,

    Aryeh Goretsky
     
  4. agoretsky

    agoretsky Eset Staff Account

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    Hello,

    This is a false positive alarm and fixed in virus signature database 5616.

    Chris and Jim, thank you very much for your reports!

    Regards,

    Aryeh Goretsky
     
  5. Chris Rich

    Chris Rich Registered Member

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    Whew! Made the right call then. Thanks for the follow-up!

    Always spooky when you have to trust a machine that's online and reporting an infection. :)
     
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