Re: Infected or Not? If familiar with ETRUST Antivirus, please advise.
From: John McGaw (nowhere_at_inparticu.lar)
Date: 04/24/04
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 13:47:22 -0400
"NeedAspirin" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A47CB7D5-2012-4128-A354-0321DBBDA39A@microsoft.com...
> While online, I got an alert saying something something about an
infection. I ran a scan with etrust EZ antivirus & it said it found but
didn't clean "JS.Petch dropper" in a file related to mozilla firefox
(phoenix) profiles. I have no experience w/viruses or worms & have 2
questions about this:
> 1.) Why didn't the av program clean or remove the problem, since it was
set to do so automatically?
> 2.) To doublecheck, I ran online scans at both Trend Micro and
PandaSoftware. Both came up clean. Who should I believe
> and what should I do?????
Check the virus lists from Trend Micro and PandaSoft. If they claim to know
the virus in question and say that it isn't there then I'd go with the
majority and say that was simply a false positive from EZAV. Such things do
happen and as more and more viruses appear false positives will probably
just become more prevalent. You only mentioned where the virus was supposed
to have been but not the actual filename. If the file in question is not an
executable then it is almost certainly a false positive.
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