Pondus,
Thanks for the links - that's exactly the
type of info I'm looking for. Unfortunately, searching within those sites is not finding anything (or in the case of the Microsoft site, finding too many hits - more than 500).
If I search for the entire string, I get no matches. If I search for FileDldr or FileDldr-A I also get no matches.
If I search for HTML or Expl (which I understand is short for 'Exploit'), I get tons of hits (most of which aren't too specific).
It seems that if avast! is giving the threat a specific name, I should be able to search for that name and find out more info about that threat.
Does avast! use some non-standard method of naming threats? I would think that searching for FileDldr or FileDldr-A would match
something!
Am I missing something obvious here?
@Gopher John,
It's at least a 4mb file containing lots of personal emails, so I'm not eager to upload it anywhere (at least not without manually going through the messages first). I agree it's not something I'm massively worried about. It's just the idea that I'm getting a definition, but nowhere can I find out anything about the definition.
Also, why should I have to upload it anywhere? Isn't avast! supposed to be doing the same sort of scan locally?
I guess when I have the time, I may just start splitting the file up into pieces (__ emails per file) and then scanning the subsets to see if I can narrow down which email is the offending one.
Thanks for offering to help a fellow rodent!