Trojan On DS ?
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Trolling through the pages of DS, reading a few pages of intrest, avira seemed to pick up a Trojan 
The Trojan was
HTML/Feebs.Gen - Malware
Is there any one else who has picked this up today off of DS?
Reading through the virus information this is what is said about the said Trojan:
Feebs is malware which wraps an executable in html and script code. The executable is encrypted in this script and is dropped on execution. The malware author uses this technique to obfuscate the presence of the executable file and deliver it to the victim without being blocked by an anti-virus scanner.
The Trojan was
HTML/Feebs.Gen - Malware
Is there any one else who has picked this up today off of DS?
Reading through the virus information this is what is said about the said Trojan:
Feebs is malware which wraps an executable in html and script code. The executable is encrypted in this script and is dropped on execution. The malware author uses this technique to obfuscate the presence of the executable file and deliver it to the victim without being blocked by an anti-virus scanner.
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btw, the virus report suggest you can only catch it from running a file sent via email or picked up through torrent sites.
It sure came from here, only page i had open
doesnt square with what the security data says about the virus... weird..... you running IE or firefox?
http://www.admuncher.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5298
that certainly makes more sense.
Running IE when 1st picked up, then went over to Firefox and picked it up on that as well.
Cheers
This might depend on how high you've got the heuristics set though.
We've seen Feebs.gen warnings before, and yes it looks likely to be a false positive from Avira.
I'll keep an eye out for anything strange & will doublecheck the AV scanners just in case.
Read the posts, it's got **** all to do with DS.
Edit: Why is 'f e c k' censored? Do you not watch Father Ted?
This time, plenty of other times their lousy ad provider has caused all sorts of malware problems on Windows machines.
Why are you so angry?
I've criticised their use of poorly selected flash ads for the last 12 - 18 months. Originally they slowed machines down, lately they've infected them.
But I'll also point out when people make knee-jerk reactions and wrongly accuse DS of 'infecting them'. The other posts in this thread clearly show that Avira is to blame, so there was no need for someone to chirp in at the end and blame DS.
Got a virus/trojan today it was some sort of XP alert with a control centre like popup, telling me all sorts of stuff. Ran SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition and it found it, so I removed it.
Now all my antispyware programmes have gone (as it appears have all my other programmes) and none of my programmes (like word) will open. I get the box asking me what programme I'd like to open it with.
I cannot get into my control box safety center. I get the message C\:WINDOWS\system\rundl32.exe
any help or advice would be apprecited
as long as you're sensible and don't grant access to any anonymous file trying to execute your machine, you should not get infected. yes, some ads on DS may have turned out to be point to dodgy files but ultimately you only got infected if you ran the thing and gave it permission to turn your machine into a virus biohazard!
see this thread - theres a lot of info from about page 5 onwards on removing malware
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1215029
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Agreed.
^ agreed again, and more so for Vista/W7 users.
If you're daft enough to turn UAC off because it annoys you, then something gets on to your PC in the background, you can't really be surprised can you?.