Author Topic: virus worm 091227-0  (Read 2853 times)

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bobby1

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virus worm 091227-0
« on: December 27, 2009, 04:17:56 PM »
started this am jumping from a movie download to my home page(yahoo finance).
Keep aborting conn. as requested but keeps happening. Keeps appearing on scan.
How can I get rid of it?

Offline polonus

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Re: virus worm 091227-0
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2009, 04:23:57 PM »
Hi bobby1,

Already corrected with 091227-1 - Right click avast! tray icon --> updating --> iAVS Update
What happened that there was a FP because links to  ads.yieldmanager.com was IP blocked, it had this netshield False Positive, which has now been swiftly corrected,

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bobby1

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Re: virus worm 091227-0
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2009, 04:29:38 PM »
Cool. Thanks Polonus