Digitell opened this issue on Apr 27, 2006 · 58 posts
Acadia posted Thu, 27 April 2006 at 11:47 PM
Ok, this is totally weird!!!
My desktop wasn't infected earlier today, but now it is....well, 6 .exe files anyway... all Daz ones.
I saw that some program at Daz was $1.99 so I went and bought it. I started my download and within a minute I got a window popup telling me that there were 4 infected files in the folder I was saving the download to; the only folder I save my Daz downloads in. Two of these files indicated they were quarantined, and 2 said "infected".
I went to the folder to quarantine the 2 that said infected but were for some reason not quarantined. As soon as I opened it I got another popup telling me that there were 4 more infected files, and again, 2 were quarantined, and 2 were infected.
I stopped the download at this point.
I tried again, and the same thing happened.
I now have a total of 6 quarantined Daz items that are infected but my antivirus can't clean. There are apparently 6 others in that folder that indicated "infected", but when I scanned them individually they came up clean. So I don't know if they are infected or not.
I'm re-organizing my CDs so I currently have other folders with multiple .exe files in them, and I don't get any popup warnings when I open those.
I'm currently doing a full system virus scan and so far with 30,000 files checked (lots more to go), no infections have been found.
I find it very odd that the only folder that so far seems to have a problem is the one I was downloading a new Daz file to.
I have an up-to-date antivirus software (e-Trust Antivirus formerly known as Innoculate-T) with current signatures. It's an excellent and proven antivirus program that has found viruses that programs such as McAffey and "Norton's" have missed.
I have an up-to-date software firewall (e-Trust Firewall), tha I never lower.
I sit behind a Linksys router.
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