A few minutes ago I was chatting with a friend via Live Messenger and apparently he sent a link to me. I asked him if he sent me a link pointing to "estas-fotos.us", but he told me he didn't . Then I knew it was a worm or something. I clicked on the link and downloaded a file called "test.com" which I scanned with NIS 2009 and told me it was clean.
I had a Trojan and some malware on my computer that was detected and resolved using another program, NIS 2009 didn't detect it.
So what I'd like to do is send the information (perhaps the scan log file) to Norton in order for them to add it to their NIS 2009 detection and resolving themes.
It doesn't need to be "analyzed" since it has already been resolved.
I just want to add it to NIS 2009 so I and others are protected from this threat in the future.
I had a Trojan and some malware on my computer that was detected and resolved using another program, NIS 2009 didn't detect it.
So what I'd like to do is send the information (perhaps the scan log file) to Norton in order for them to add it to their NIS 2009 detection and resolving themes.
It doesn't need to be "analyzed" since it has already been resolved.
I just want to add it to NIS 2009 so I and others are protected from this threat in the future.
How and what does this entail?
Apparently, this information is "useless" to symantec as the other Product has it's own way of Quarantine and Detecting Files; somewhere along those lines anyway.
A few minutes ago I was chatting with a friend via Live Messenger and apparently he sent a link to me. I asked him if he sent me a link pointing to "estas-fotos.us", but he told me he didn't . Then I knew it was a worm or something. I clicked on the link and downloaded a file called "test.com" which I scanned with NIS 2009 and told me it was clean.
[ ... I knew it was a worm or something. I clicked on the link and downloaded a file called "test.com" [ ... ]
There's nothing personal in this but I wonder why you clicked on a link for something you "knew" was malware? You don't have to open malware files to get infected -- with some it's enough to just click on the link or an what appears to be an web page with an active link on it when it is an image and clicking anywhere, including what appears to be the [X] close button, is enough to trigger the event.
I ask this to warn others that you risk your computer when you do something like that since there's an old saying that "the greatest danger to one's computer lies between the left ear and the right ear" <s>
We've all had the experience of clicking first and thinking afterwards "OH **** I shouldn't have done that".
Come on everyone, practice safe computing and then you won't have to blame your security software when you get infected!
Hi. Thanks for the advise! I practice safe computing but this time I couldn't help but click on the link and download the file and catch this new worm/virus
