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IEvony - The Real Truth
iEvony. Devious. Is the little bugger your friend or your enemy? 'IEvony' is an application that you download into your PC to invite your friends to join the game in exchange for in game rewards. Several leading programmers and webmasters have seriously considered that there is a strong possibility the system is Trojan designed to harvest email addresses messenger passwords and much else.
Trojan Defination - A Trojan horse, or trojan for short, is a term used to describe malware that appears, to the user, to perform a desirable function but, in fact, facilitates unauthorized access to the user's computer system.
Being gullible myself. I actually downloaded this software for my PC when it first came out. I soon caught a worm related virus soon after. However one my buddies, who has never played the game Evony reported that his PC, had been infected with the same worm/trojan. Coincidence?
Malware is software that lives in your computer without your consent. Trojan horses are malware that gets into your computer by being part of something else, say the client software for a browser game. Malware can allow someone else to make use of your computer as part of a botnet, which are widely used for sending spam and other illegal activities where the real sender doesn’t want to be traceable. Or it can be used to spy on everything in your computer and everything you do with your computer and so harvest things like credit card details. I am not saying that Evony has a trojan in its client software. This would take proper technical investigation. What I am saying is that the possibility of this being so is such that I would be hesitant to let Evony near my computer again. These people have already spammed myself and the internet like crazy. Trust needs to be put back in place. What I'm saying is, unfortunately I wouldn't put it past Evony.
This is a forum post from an Evony user: “Something happened this morning. Just when i logged in my account to play Evony, my Anti-Virus detected 4 trojans horse in explorer.exe. They came right when i entered my server. I am no expert about virus so I don<t know what happened there. Any help on the forum would be great as i do not want to join that server again until some admin tells me its clean. Took me 3 hours to clean my computer.”
What do you think?

Last edited by 6shogun9; 08-29-2009 at 06:04 PM.
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