how to find and isolate them? What are their possible filenames and is home version of avast good enough for this?
2006-12-17 05:01:22 · 4 answers · asked by Aurora 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
best practice is to not visit that site being spammed on here, and keep your anti-virus up todate and do a full scan
2006-12-17 05:04:20 · answer #1 · answered by great one 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
CERT and all of the anti-virus companies will investigate and we will hear very shortly.
I don't know (See above).
It depends on if this is a new virus or a pre-existing one, and how often avast updates their definitions and it you've run the update lately.
You might want to run some online scans to double-check it.
Here are some online scans, Trend, AVG, and panda are good.
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=online+antivirus+scan&spell=1
If this is a "ZERO-DAY" exploit or a root-kit, it may take a day or two until they are able to detect it.
If you think you have it and it's not picked up in a AV scanner
and have a recent system restore point, I would consider restoring to the point before you clicked on the web link.
You are correct to be very concerned.
2006-12-17 14:34:10 · answer #2 · answered by Jon W 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Geesssshhhh. Please don't get everyone paranoid about getting a virus. It was just a spammer. No virus, No spyware, No adaware. Nothing. Just someone most likely getting something in return for people visiting that page.
Anyway I have not seen them around here for almost a hour now. So it looks like they have been dealt with.
2006-12-17 13:17:12 · answer #3 · answered by rlh242424 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
dont trust anybody.
Trust your antivirus , keep the update .
precaution surfing the web
2006-12-17 13:09:33 · answer #4 · answered by Friend from heart 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋