An Urban Myth in the Making

BO(Back Orifice) cannot just be 'sent' to your computer, without your permission.

No matter how good a person is with TCP/IP, they cannot run any apllication on your system, or edit any files without being given permission to do so.

Simply playing Shogun does not give any application other than Shogun the rights to 'write' to your hard disk.

BO has to be run to be installed. You have to choose to run it, or the program sent to you or downloaded by you that contains the Back Orifice code. Or the Back Orifice executable itself.

BO can be packaged with legitimate software, attached to any program or file,
or run all by itself (it's own executable).
But BO must be run to install,
BO has to edit the registry, and it can't do that just 'dumped' on the disk.

BO Must be RUN to Install

For your peace of mind!

1. - Turn File and Print sharing OFF, this makes your hard drives invisible to the Internet.

2. - Download all the critical updates from microsoft.
There are bug fixes and security fixes in these update.

3. - Don't open any email attatchements from people you do not know or trust.

4. - Don't download and run programs without getting your virus scanner to check them.

5. - Most commonly windll.dll is the library file attatched to Back Orifice.
If you have this file on your system DO NOT delete it, it is just a library file.
You'll have to find the actual server file to be secure.

6. - The virus scanner's on the market CAN detect Back Orifice resident on your system.
Fire up your Virus Scanner and let it go to work.

If you want to check you have not already infected yourself, and you don't have a virus scanner, Download BO-Shield ONLY from here.

http://www.sg1.net/security/boshield.htm

DOWNLOAD BO-SHIELD FROM HERE ONLY
These guys are the authors.
I have download supposedly legit copies of BO-Shield from several other servers.
The files are different internally! The code has been altered.
I would consider any other source of BOShield suspect!

other sources of information

http://www.nwinternet.com/~pchelp/bo/bo.html

http://www.nwinternet.com/~pchelp/bo/bobasics.htm

This is an Urban Myth in the making You do not need to have your virus scanner running when playing Shogun, it consumes resources and can interfere with game play.

If you want piece of mind follow the six steps above, run your virus scanner after you have been playing online and set your virus scanner to do a check every boot.

But turn the damn thing off when you play Shogun.