A few weeks ago, I got an email from someone I know; I opened it and clicked the link. It turned out to be spam and was sent to some site selling male enhancement pills.
Since then, I have scanned my computer numerous times with Norton AntiVirus, Malwarebytes, and SuperAntiSpyware and nothing was found. Norton just found Adware Tracking cookies.
I have a Windows XP and my Norton AntiVirus is version 19.2.0.10
I checked my Norton Security History and found a ton of Intrusion attempts by my C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SERVICES.EXE and some other processes. From what I’ve seen in other threads, that's normal right?
However I also found 2 other intrusion attempts with a High Security Risk.
"An Intrusion attempt by D5P7C4D1 was blocked” and was labeled as a Web Attack: Malicious Toolkit Website 13
"An Intrusion attempt by 188.127.228.44 was blocked” and was labeled as a Web Attack: Malicious Toolkit Website 4
There are also a handful of Statistical Submissions of WS.Trojan.H that were exonerated.
A few days ago, I preformed Scans in Safe Mode and Norton found 3 WS.Trojan.H in an old Photoshop CS5 trial version folder that had been long since expired and haven’t used in nearly 2 years. They were the same files that had supposedly been exonerated by Norton.
It also found 2 High security risks in my Adobe Updater compressed files.
I quarantined all those files and scanned my computer again in Safe mode and found no other threats.
Should I worry about the 2 pervious High Risk intrusion attempts?
And were the infections found in the Safe Mode scan bugs or the real deal?
Has anyone experienced something like this?
I have a GeekSquad Tech Support membership and would take my computer to get check out, but first I want to be sure that all this is a real threat to my computer and not just Norton acting like…well, Norton.