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PTSNOOP.EXE
Name: Tom Date: August 5, 2002 at 12:14:11 Pacific
Comment:
What is ptsnoop.exe? Where does it come from? I have it on several work stations, I have removed it from the startup and have seen no ill affects of its removal. Just curious as to what it does and where it comes from.
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: August 5, 2002 at 22:03:48 Pacific
Reply:
Ptsnoop is part of the sofware that comes with modems based on the pctel 789 chip. I forget exactly, but it has something to do with keeping track of com ports. It is not a virus but seems to be unnecessary in most cases.
There has been considerable discussion on this site about it being a virus and it could very well be that a virus of the same name exists. However if you have a pctel modem it's presence on a machine is probably due to the modem and not a virus.
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Response Number 4
Name: chappie Date: August 6, 2002 at 08:07:59 Pacific
Reply:
a quick check for c:\WIN.ANA will verify the presence of the backdoor.
Summary: ok..i was helping my g.f clean out her computer and we came across this ptsnoop program running.So i looked it up and the 1st several messages i seen.."its a virus trojan" etc..so i deleted it as seve...
Summary: I found this, er I mean I did some investigating: http://www.driver-forum.com/modem/1360.html "ptsnoop.exe is a trojan that is transferred by openning an up an email. ptsnoop is hidden and will automa...
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