Re: Script Blocking-File Object: Create Text File --Juno 5.0 Software?

From: Chuck (Ummm_at_guess.org)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:08:11 -0500

My mother uses Juno, and SPybot S&D keep smarking Juno.exe as spyware.
I have contacted Juno tech support (a miricle in itself) and they
assured me it was safe. I suggest you send them an Email about it. See
what they tell you.

Eli wrote:
> I use Norton AntiVirus 2004 and Juno 5.0 Build 33
>
> In the Juno software, when I click on Help-->-"What'sNew in Juno 5.0" on
> the horizontal menu, my Norton Antivirus displays a reading that a
> suspicious script has been detected and that the PC has been halted.
>
> In the Norton AntiVirus logfile:
>
> <<<<
> Suspicious Script Blocked-: File System Object: Create Text File
> Source : JUNO.EXE
> >>>>>
>
> This scripting alert is followed by several error messages about Juno
> creating an error in......
>
> This has happened several times. So far , it has happened only when I
> clicked on that : "What's New in Juno 5.0" item.
>
> I redownloaded the software from the Juno site, uninstalled the Juno and
> reinstalled from the new Juno 5.0 file. But the same malicious script alert
> occured even with the new installation.
>
> Is this likely a false positive, or could there be a malicious script
> somehow generated by that software?
>
> What might be causing that malcious script alert?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> -Eli
>
>
>
> I use Windows ME
>
> Internet Explore 6.0 SP1
>
> Norton AntiVirus 2004
>
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