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Posted by jen on February 1, 2008, 7:42 pm
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> I've recently "upgraded" to Norton. The box is XPsp2.
> I occasionally get alerts from scans to say that Norton has detected
> something that it calls Trojan.Kibik!inf (name copied'n'pasted
> no misspellings) and that this is high risk.
> Now, I'd expect a high risk virus to be listed in Nortons "details"
> link. Clicking on this from the Security History window just loads a
> page of generic virus descriptions: how to remove one, what a virus is
> and how to update the virus definitions. There's nothing specific
> about
> this supposedly high-risk threat that it's found.
> The Norton-Symantec keyword search for this trojan turns up exactly
> nothing, but it's _name_ appears in the list of all risks and threats,
> but with no details.
> A quick google returns only one reference, from
> http://research.sunbelt-software.com ( http://tinyurl.com/yttfp8 )
> Even this tells me nothing about what this virus/trojan actually does.
>
> So, my AV software is reporting "high-risk" viruses that no-one has
> apparently heard of, no-one describes what it does and the only advice
> I get is to remove it.
> I've run AVG on the box to try and get a second opinion - that doesn't
> even detect it.
>
> Someone with a less generous and trusting personality might think that
> this isn't really a virus at all - just something the AV company has
> dreamed up to persuade people that their product has spotted a threat
> on an otherwise clean system. And mysteriously, no other AV program
> can see it.
>
> Any suggestions, comments?
Take a look here:
http://www.threatexpert.com/report.aspx?uid=d1aa4a59-9c4b-49ab-b9e6-86ec923b28c5
-jen
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