Re: Dateline Fri 16th June 8.45am


"news.rcn.com" <news.rnc.com> wrote in message news:fvKdnRwVOs2iMA_ZnZ2dnUVZ_rmdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxx

MEANWHILE Dateline Fri 16th June 8.45 am: AVG suddenly decided to update itself and run a full scan and HEY PRESTO they must be reading these posts: it has suddenly started to detect the zlob trojan downloader!! 8 of them including two .exe files. I suppose it is an open question now whether it would have been aware of the BackDoor-CVT trojan, the FakeAlert-B trojan, the Generic Downloader.ab trojan, or the Puper trojan? But am I being churlish in wondering why it let them in in the first place for McAfee to find? They all sound pretty dangerous to me?

And does it still feel the need to ignore the potentially unwanted program Adware-ClickSpring, and the potentially unwanted program PrcViewer which in slowing down my system were certainly acting like viruses?



AVG up-daters for the past week have included at least 4 variants of the Zlob - together with any number of other nasties.
These variants are being churned out by an automatic engine, and the AV companies are playing catch-up. Unless YOU moderate YOUR surfing/email habits, you WILL get infected again - guaranteed! - even with the world's best kit and software.

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