[pchelpers] Re: hybris

It gets worse, (BTW I've not had an infection in years), I went to trend,
typed in the name they gave me, to find out a little more and the search
came back " that no such virus existed and to check my spelling"

Billy
>
> Maybe there was just a registry entry left from an old infection.
> Did you run Kaspersky's online scan? I've had more false
> positives with Trend than any other scanner, but it could be that
> this time there really was something on your computer that the
> others didn't find. It's very unlikely though because it's an old
> worm from 2001:
> http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=238
>
http://www.viruslist.com/en/VirusList.html?page=0&mode=1&id=4112&key=00001000130000100044
> http://www.viruslist.com/en/viruses/encyclopedia?chapter=153280800
>
> > I ran
> > everything again, only Trend found it again, but this time only one
infected
> > file, as against two the first time??? I told trend to clean, it
couldn't,
> > so I told it to delete file and it did. My puter is the same as it was
> > before, nothing has stopped working and now Trend reports the same as
the
> > other 5 online and PC based programs I run..........................I
HATE
> > PUTERS THEY HAVE LESS BRAINS THAN A 5 YEAR OLD
>
> Well, looks like this time the AV was stupid, not your puter, and
> not only because it can't make up its mind as to how much malware
> it's detecting. It's insane asking users whether to clean/
> disinfect or delete when the malware is sitting there by itself
> and not in a text document or other file that the user might want
> to try to salvage.
>
> Ek
>
>
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