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DaRkxFaDeD

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What are the infects of these virus's?
« on: July 27, 2008, 12:31:48 AM »
Well i was just scanning a few files and got a few infected warnings from avast  the files i scanned had the following virus's in them

Win32:Polipos [Wrm]

Win32:VB-IDF [trj]

im just wondering are those virus's very harmful to your computer?  Do they infects other files like some other virus do like Win32:Parite B

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Re: What are the infects of these virus's?
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2008, 12:55:38 AM »
Polipos seems to be a file infector, yes. The other one seems to be a Trojan downloader- downloading other malware.

http://www.bitdefender.com/VIRUS-1000066-en--Win32.Polip.A.html
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Re: What are the infects of these virus's?
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2008, 01:58:47 AM »
Hi DaRkxFaDeD ,

Need a remover for the dangerous polipos malware: http://forum.hijackthis.de/showthread.php?t=15554

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