On a machine running Windows XP, removal of these three files in safe mode with system restore turned off would disinfect the system. C:Windowsdxdgns.dll or C:WindowsSystem32dxdgns.dll (Location dependent on attacker's choice).C:WindowsSystem32ms****.com (Size ranging from 30KB to 49KB).C:Windowsmsagentms****.com (Size ranging from 30KB to 49KB).
It mainly targeted three infection sites: Beast was one of the first trojans to feature a reverse connection to its victims, and once established it gave the attacker complete control over the infected computer. It used the typical client–server model where the client would be under operation by the attacker and the server is what would infect the victim. Written in Delphi and released first by its author Tataye in 2002, it became quite popular due to its unique features. It is capable of infecting versions of Windows from 95 to XP. The story of Laocoön has been referenced repeatedly: in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, in novels such as Joyce Carol Oates’ American Appetites and John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, in songs by R.E.M., in Hector Berlioz’ opera Les Troyens and in Goscinny and Uderzo’s Asterix and the Laurel Wreath.Beast is a Windows-based backdoor trojan horse, more commonly known in the underground hacking community as a Remote Administration Tool or RAT. Strangely, El Greco’s Trojan Horse is depicted as a natural beast. The city in this painting’s background is not Troy, however, but the Spanish city of Toledo, El Greco’s home, which was enduring war at the time. The fate of Laocoön fascinated artists of El Greco’s generation, not least because of the discovery in Rome in 1506 of the Laocoön Group, one of the greatest of all ancient sculptures, which depicted the death of the priest and his sons. In the Odyssey of Homer, written in the eighth century BC, others’ warnings are recorded, including that of Cassandra, daughter of the Trojan king Priam, but she too is ignored and the city falls. In response, Athena/Minerva unleashed two sea serpents, which strangled Laocoön and his sons, Antiphantes and Thymbraeus, the scene depicted in El Greco’s painting. When the wooden horse was taken inside the city’s gates, Laocoön sounded his warning and threw his spear into ‘the creature’s round and riveted belly’. A Greek soldier, Sinon, was seemingly abandoned on the beach, though his real task was to light a beacon once the soldiers inside the Trojan horse had opened the city’s gates, alerting the Greek army, who would finally destroy Troy. An inscription on its side read: ‘For their return home, the Greeks dedicate this offering to Athena.’ It seemed to be compensation for the Greeks’ destruction of her temple in Troy. It was left outside the city as the Greeks, apparently, sailed away. Its belly hid a group of their greatest warriors, including Odysseus. A gigantic horse, made with woven ribs of fir, had been built by the Greeks who had besieged the city of Troy for ten years. These are among the most famous lines of the classical world, uttered by Laocoön, the Trojan priest of Poseidon (the Roman god Neptune), in the second book of Virgil’s Aeneid, written in the first century BC. Even when they bring gifts, I fear the Greeks.’