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Denier-of-Soup

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Found a trojan horse =/
« on: April 12, 2005, 10:09:02 PM »
I aborted my connection as soon as I got the alert. I don't really know what to do right now. Has Avast blocked the virus or will I have to scan for it?
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Re: Found a trojan horse =/
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2005, 10:24:06 PM »
That's why we have avast! If you aborted connection, you don't have to worry any more... nice features (providers) avast! gives us, ha ?

Cheers !
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Re: Found a trojan horse =/
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2005, 11:39:25 PM »


Doesn't that mean I'm still infected? And no, I wasn't on a porn site. -_-
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Re: Found a trojan horse =/
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2005, 12:00:45 AM »
What do you mean by "still infected" ? Your computer wasn't infected. avast!, actually you, aborted the connection before virus even tried to enter your computer. As I mentioned before, that's why we have web shield. That provider will warn us when something strange tries to enter your computer...

If you're still not sure, check your computer with avast! on-demand scanner and that's it.... you can also use one of the best online antivirus scanners out there, Housecall to be sure:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Edit: your screenshot shows you the name of the site that was infected.... site... not the file on your computer.
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Re: Found a trojan horse =/
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2005, 03:09:07 AM »
Quote from: Denier-of-Soup on April 12, 2005, 11:39:25 PM
Doesn't that mean I'm still infected? And no, I wasn't on a porn site. -_-
Like Sasha said, avast! blocks it before with WebShield... Enjoy avast!
But, as you wish to be sure, why don't you run a full avast! scanning or schedule a boot time scanning?
It won't hurt...  ;)
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Re: Found a trojan horse =/
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2005, 07:15:05 AM »
I hate that install.xxxtoolbar.com site. Gets ya everytime.
I feel sorry for the poor suckers with an unpatched or older Internet Explorer.
It's a shame spam/spyware/trojans found a way to people's computers without their knowledge.
Remember back when the internet used to be "safe"? Those were the days.  :'(
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Denier-of-Soup

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Re: Found a trojan horse =/
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2005, 11:35:02 AM »
I'm using Firefox right now. To be honest, I hate Microsoft and all its products. My FTP server is running a Unix system (Mac OS X Panther), and I’m planning to start another server with Redhat Linux. If Microsoft didn’t have this many game developers on its side, I would have trashed XP a long time ago.
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Re: Found a trojan horse =/
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2005, 04:27:11 PM »
Microsoft and Windows has nothing to do with people who're constantly trying to "break" Windows OS. You should blame those individuals which don't have anything else to do, but ruining other people's lifes by releasing viruses, trojans and other nasties...

Believe me, even Unix can suffer similar problems, it's just there is not much people using it as it's the case with Windows, so it's not so interesting. Working as computer technician for the last 15 years, I've seen a lot of things... Windows are always good target, especially because many people hates Gates (for whatever reason). I personaly admires him. He knew how to make a business out of nothing... there is no business in the world that doesn't use all and any kind of ways to get where it aims... But, that's of course totaly off-topic. Microsoft is not an angel either, but holding it responsible for other people's crazy ideas (those which makes viruses) is not quite right.
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Re: Found a trojan horse =/
« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2005, 08:12:10 PM »
What if Microsoft is one of those individuals responsible for some of the spyware/adware on the net? The thought of having a tracking cookie installed on your comp each time you start IE doesn't sound too appealing. Also, Microsoft released it's spyware scanner a few months ago, and in the first release, they had several reports of the scanner quarantining Explorer.
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Re: Found a trojan horse =/
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2005, 12:06:10 AM »
Quote from: Denier-of-Soup on April 13, 2005, 08:12:10 PM
What if Microsoft is one of those individuals responsible for some of the spyware/adware on the net? The thought of having a tracking cookie installed on your comp each time you start IE doesn't sound too appealing. Also, Microsoft released it's spyware scanner a few months ago, and in the first release, they had several reports of the scanner quarantining Explorer.

Ok, let's think that way for a moment... so we could easily come to conlusion like this - there are some Apple people, sitting in their rooms and programming those nasties, just to "prove" how Windows OS is really vulnerable, and how OSX is really "untouchable". Of course, no one has nothing to prove that, something similar to your statement about Microsoft releasing adware and spyware...

Any further chat on this subject is just collection of subjective opinions came out from pro and/or anti-Microsoft individuals... in other words, pointless. It's well known - everybody should use what makes him/her happy... but, one thing is certain - there is no bullet proof OS, probably there will never be.
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Re: Found a trojan horse =/
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2005, 06:37:49 AM »
I'm a new user of Avast. Today I was surfing and some stupid pop-up had something in it. I did not even click on the ad!!! Avast blocked it.
SYSTEM   1892   Sign of "Win32:Pacad [Adw]" has been found
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