Yay for Kaspersky...
Dec. 23rd, 2001 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe urge came over me to use the Kaspersky AntiVirus that I have installed on my VAIO to check the health of zion's files over the network. It turns out there is something called 'explorer.exe' in my Temporary Internet Files folder that has infected the IE5 running on the machine with something called 'Trojan.Win32.Dlder'.
Unfortunately, there was no information available on this puppy at the Kaspersky site, which I found curious, so I dropped them an e-mail. Now, granted, it's about 8 am in Moscow about now, so it may be purely coincidental, but still... I was duly impressed to receive an informed answer to my query within two minutes.
Frankly, I almost didn't open the mail, assuming it was one of those idiotic automated responses that companies send to let you know that, well, they have an automated e-mail response system (it sure as heck can't be to convince you that they care a fig about you or your problem; in my experience too few companies actually do a decent follow-up to their automated responses).
The infecting file in my Internet cache is only 31 kB in size, and I have duly noted the URL of the site that, um, "gave" it to me. Interestingly, I recently made Mozilla the default browser on that system, so while I'm not going to let the intruder rest, I'm also not going to drop what I'm doing (translating) to eradicate the beast.
Cheers...
Unfortunately, there was no information available on this puppy at the Kaspersky site, which I found curious, so I dropped them an e-mail. Now, granted, it's about 8 am in Moscow about now, so it may be purely coincidental, but still... I was duly impressed to receive an informed answer to my query within two minutes.
Frankly, I almost didn't open the mail, assuming it was one of those idiotic automated responses that companies send to let you know that, well, they have an automated e-mail response system (it sure as heck can't be to convince you that they care a fig about you or your problem; in my experience too few companies actually do a decent follow-up to their automated responses).
The infecting file in my Internet cache is only 31 kB in size, and I have duly noted the URL of the site that, um, "gave" it to me. Interestingly, I recently made Mozilla the default browser on that system, so while I'm not going to let the intruder rest, I'm also not going to drop what I'm doing (translating) to eradicate the beast.
Cheers...
