Exploit found.

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by BillD, Aug 9, 2007.

  1. BillD

    BillD Private First Class

    For the last several weeks, AVG has found an Exploit, in My Documents/settings/user/IE5 temp internet, that it can not heal. It comes up with an error when it tries to heal, and doesn't offer a delete or quarantine option. I ran Symantec and Trend Micro online scans and neither found it. The comp at work also got it and McAfee couldn't fix or delete it either. I have tried to follow the path to selete manually, but can't find it, and doing a search using the file info from AVG also failed to locate it. I was going to try CCleaner to remove all IE temp files to see if that would do it. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    They are typically not big problems. Just close ALL browsers before running scans. This sometimes helps. Also run a program like CCleaner to remove all the junk like you thought. You can also just flush your IE cache.
     
    Last edited: Aug 11, 2007
  3. BillD

    BillD Private First Class

    Thanks for the reply. I will try that. I found it surprising that neither of the online scans even found it.
     
  4. BillD

    BillD Private First Class

    As an update, I went to update my CCleaner, and when i went to the download page at File Hippo, AVG popped up and said there was a Trojan Downloader, which I sent to Virus Vault. After the update, when I ran the CCleaner scan, AVG popped up when the Exploit file was scanned, and gave the option to delete or send to Virus Vault, which I did. I still find it odd that neither of the 2 online scans even found the exploit. Thanks to all who took the time to look at this post.
     
  5. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    You should be downloading files like CCleaner from Major Geeks: CCleaner Slim (No Yahoo Toolbar, English)

    It is not unusal for Exploits to not be detected by various programs. One scanner will detect an exploit that others do not. Often they are not major problems.
     

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