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What can a Hacker do to your Computer?

   Most Trojans come with an almost complete list of controls to do just about anything on your computer, including, but not limited to:

• Create Folders / Directories.

• List Files and Directories.

• Remove a directory

• Copy Files.

• Delete Files.

• Search your Hard drive for files that match a wild card specification.

• Compress Files.

• Decompress Files. 

• View the contents of a Text file.

• Spawn a text based application on a tcp port. This allows you to control a text or dos application (such as command.com) via a telnet session.

• Stop an application from listening for connections.

• List the applications currently listening for connections.

• Create an export on the server. The exported directory or drive's icon does not get overlaid with the shared hand icon.

• Delete an export.

• List current share names, the drive or directory that is being shared, the access for that share, and the password for the share.

• Disable the http server.

• Enable the http server.

• Log keystrokes on the server machine to a text file. The log shows the name of the window the text was typed into.

• End keyboard logging.

• Capture video and audio (if available) from a video input device to an avi file.

• Capture a frame of video from a video input device to a bitmap file.

• Capture an image of the server machine's screen to a bitmap file.

• List video input devices.

• Play a wav file on the server machine.

• List current incoming and outgoing network connections.

• Disconnect the server machine from a network resource.

• Connect the server machine to a network resource.

• View all network interfaces, domains, servers, and exports visible from the server machine.

• Ping the host machine. Returns the machine name and the BO version number.

• Execute a plug-in.

• Tell a specific plug-in to shut down.

• List active plug-ins or the return value of a plug-in that has exited.

• Terminate a process or kill any program running on the machine.

• List running processes or programs running.

• Run a program. From the gui, if the second parameter is specified, the process will be executed as a normal, visible process. Otherwise it will be executed hidden or detached.

• Redirect incoming tcp connections or udp packets to another ip address.

• Stop a port redirection.

• List active port redirection's.

• Create a key in the registry.

• Delete a key from the registry.

• Delete a value from the registry.

• List the sub keys of a registry key.

• List the values of a registry key.

• Set a value for a registry key.

• Resolve the ip address of a machine name relative to the server machine. The machine name can be an internet host name, or a local network machine name.

• Create a dialog box on the server machine with the supplied text and an 'ok' button. You can create as many dialog boxes as you want, they will just cascade in front of the previous box.

• Display system information for the server machine. Information displayed includes machine name, current user, cpu type, total and available memory, Windows version information, and drive information, including drive type (Fixed, cd-rom, removable, or remote) and for fixed drives, the size and free space of the drive.

• Lock up the server machine.

• Display cached passwords for the current user and the screen saver password.

• Shut down the server machine and reboot it.

• Connect the server machine to a specific ip and port and saves any data received from that connection to the specified file.

• Connect the server machine to a specific ip and port and sends the contents of the specified file, then disconnect.

• Files transfers to the machine

• Files transfers from the machine