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Posted by Clay on September 23, 2005, 10:54 am
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>The file in question (see below) was downloaded in Feb this year
>(from, I believe, www.thecrack.net).
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>I never ran it. NAV and The Cleaner (my 2 main AV progs) did not (and
>still do not) detect it as a threat. While doing a de-frag on the
>drive (by having it slaved to an alternate computer) I ran Spybot and
>it was the one that alerted me to the problem with this file (!).
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>I then submitted it as described. Clearly, many AV programs are
>behind the curve with this one. I'm surprised that Spybot found it.
>I guess we should consider it as a legit piece of AV software?
Personally, I wouldn't classify Spybot as AV software. Just another
tool for underware detection in my book. In fact, they don't even
describe it themselves as AV software.... of course you can consider
it whatever you please.
From: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html
"Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different
kinds from your computer."
[snippage of Files scanned by Jotti ]
Seems to be a porn dialer and not a virus.
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