Virus

[jarble187]

Ive been picking up a virus (twice in the past week) and am not sure where its coming from. Its called Eploit.JS.ADODB.Steam.Y. It seems to be malware of a sort (most likely keystroke memorizer) and doesnt seem have a major effect on my system (my virus protectiuon cleans it right up). Are any of you people picking this bug up?

[Kamal]

Re: Virus

no, where are you catching it, get a decent firewall that monitors/blocks outbound connectivity. You should be able to disable any possibility that this thing is sending out your info to a remote address.

[diegoff]

Re: Virus

porn sites, sure!!

[jarble187]

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no, where are you catching it, get a decent firewall that monitors/blocks outbound connectivity. You should be able to disable any possibility that this thing is sending out your info to a remote address.

Ive got zonealarm- its what picked it up in the first place. Is it possible to get a virus via junk mail strictly from viewing the e-mail (not d/ling any attachments)?

[lilsensa]

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^^I don't think that could even execute a virus..I might be wrong..Dunno

[threehills]

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Ive got zonealarm- its what picked it up in the first place. Is it possible to get a virus via junk mail strictly from viewing the e-mail (not d/ling any attachments)?

Ooops, someone needs their penis enlarged!

[JK224]

Re: Virus

Spybot S&D is great for detecting and removing that type of stuff.

[lilsensa]

Re: Virus

or...................

















Get a Mac

[Kamal]

Re: Virus

Ive got zonealarm- its what picked it up in the first place. Is it possible to get a virus via junk mail strictly from viewing the e-mail (not d/ling any attachments)?

If you use outlook, then an earlier version of Outlook (or Outlook Express) had a vulnerability where even merely "viewing" an email in preview mode could execute a virus. This was back in 2002 / 2003 so depending on the version of Outlook you have and whether or not its been patched / unpatched will determine your chances of infection.

[jarble187]

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^^^Yes, I use O.E. version 6. Would you know what patch to look for?

[Kamal]

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have you run your updates from Windows update, it should have automatically patched it. Unless you're running a hot copy and you can't patch your copy, I'll have a looksie on their website and see what I can find.

[Kamal]

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http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?q=outlook+express+patch&qsc0=0&SearchBtn0=Search&FORM=QBME1&l=1&mkt=en-US&PageType=99

[jarble187]

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^^^^Thanks for running a search. Everything on this computer is legit and registered (work machine) and up to date.

[poults]

Re: Virus

Spybot S&D is great for detecting and removing that type of stuff.

adaware is a lot better imo

[audiotherapy]

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i would use a different mail client like thunderbird or something. does your AV support mail (POP3) scanning? enable it.
just by the virus name i think it might be related to those new pdf attachment spams, that been pretty popular recently.