# Securing Wowza Streaming Engine Manager from Backdoors

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/securing-wowza-streaming-engine-manager-from-backdoors/94794>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [April 7, 2022, 6:33am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/securing-wowza-streaming-engine-manager-from-backdoors/94794 "2022-04-07T06:33:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![J\_van\_Marion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@J\_van\_Marion](https://community.wowza.com/u/J_van_Marion)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/securing-wowza-streaming-engine-manager-from-backdoors/94794/2 "2022-04-07T21:51:57Z")

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Before you delete the files you have some debugging to do. Otherwise you will have the same problem again in no time.

- Did you secure your windows server? installing with the basic settings is not enough.
- Windows defender is not suitable for servers (in my opinion).
- Get server monitoring (zabbix or some sort).
- Close down all the ports you dont need
- is your Java up-to-date?
- Did you patch your Wowza with the log4j patch?  
[UPDATE: FIX RELEASED FOR BOTH CVE-2021-44228 or CVE-2021-45046/ log4j2](http://community.wowza.com/t/update-fix-released-for-both-cve-2021-44228-or-cve-2021-45046-log4j2/94298/18)

You have to find the source first and close that down. Close the leak first then you can delete the files.  
Edit: Am i right you already found the source?

If you have an annual license you could also ask wowza for support. I don’t think they help you with removing the trojan, but they can advise you on your Windows setup.

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