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What's going on with the DB server?

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Numsgil:
Yep, I moved to sunny California for a programming gig with a video game startup.

Testlund:

--- Quote from: Peter ---I would think you would be the last person that gets infected, you seem pretty serious obout system protection.
--- End quote ---

I needed something that was only available as a Bittorrent file, nothing illegal though. So I took my chances and opened a bag of worms called Bittorrent. I should have cared more about the warnings from my firewall, but I thought I would just give it a try and allow it temporary just to get this file, then I could uninstall it.
I suspect this client is malicious code by itself. The reason I believe that is that I was running under a user account, installed Bittorrent with administrator priviligies by right-clicking and chosing 'Run as...', and imediately I got lots of unusual firewall warnings and this spam bot or whatever got installed. Logically nothing should be able to get downloaded and installed in the system afterwards if it doesn't have administrator access. Bittorrent had though.
I also noticed that traffic continued to/from my computer even after quitting Bittorrent. I've seen that on other people's computers.
Your computer becomes a file server/spam deliverer which you have no control over after installing this program. Don't use it!

Trafalgar:
Where did you get that Bittorrent client, which one was it? There are a many many different bittorrent clients.

goffrie:
The official BitTorrent client (at http://www.bittorrent.com/) does not have any malware in it. "Bittorrent" is an improper capitalization, by the way

Also, Window's "administrator"/"limited user" split is a joke. You can do tons with a limited user.

Testlund:
That's the site where I downloaded the client. People may have different opinion what malware is. I just described above what happend when I installed it. If that's not the behavior of malware then I don't know what is. If I was to turn off my firewall for a few days I wouldn't be surprised to get a call from my ISP wondering why my PC has turned into a spam zombie. I don't know what all those letters means with the various ports that my PC suddenly tries to get out on after I've both installed and uninstalled BitTorrent. Never seen it before. Eric suspects the behavior of a spam bot and I have no reason to disbelieve him. I will try to find more information about this later but it's not easy to find. Mostly you just end up on forums where people making guessing games about what it is.

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