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Panda Paranoia DotNettie 03-26-2007
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Posted by DotNettie on March 26, 2007, 2:29 pm
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Call me Polly Paranoia, but I have a WinXP SP2 with all updates, Spybot S &
D, Ad-aware, Spysweeper and AVAST and Zone Alarm. I use both IE7 and
Firefox. I don't open unknown email nor do I click on pop-ups.

I hadn't run an online scanner for sometime so I thought I would try Panda
ActiveScan. Bear in mind that just before I ran the online scanner, I ran
the above programs all of which were clean. However, during the Active Scan
download, I got a message from AVAST that said Win32:CTX has been found in
h t t p : //acs. pandasoftware. com / active scan. AVAST caught it. And, a
rescan indicated no infection. Active Scan did not have a chance to scan my
PC because the ActiveScan hadn't run with the partial download. The download
was about 50% done when this occurred.

Can someone help me understand what happened here? Stupidly, maybe I ran the
scanner again and got the same message in the same place, Avast caught it, I
did a re-scan after removal and all is well, I hope.

I have no symptoms or problems that I can find. I added Superspyware to my
library after this incident, ran it and other then some tracking cookies, PC
was clean.

I tried to run Housecalls after this. Housecalls took forever 'cause I'm on
dialup, and I couldn't get that scan to run at all. I couldn't find any tips
to smooth the process. I remember running Housecalls with IE6, but hadn't
tried it before with IE7.

Should the incident at Panda be of concern to me? Thanks.






Posted by Tom Willett on March 26, 2007, 2:39 pm
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http://www.spywaredb.com/remove-win32-ctx/


| Call me Polly Paranoia, but I have a WinXP SP2 with all updates, Spybot S
&
| D, Ad-aware, Spysweeper and AVAST and Zone Alarm. I use both IE7 and
| Firefox. I don't open unknown email nor do I click on pop-ups.
|
| I hadn't run an online scanner for sometime so I thought I would try Panda
| ActiveScan. Bear in mind that just before I ran the online scanner, I ran
| the above programs all of which were clean. However, during the Active
Scan
| download, I got a message from AVAST that said Win32:CTX has been found in
| h t t p : //acs. pandasoftware. com / active scan. AVAST caught it. And, a
| rescan indicated no infection. Active Scan did not have a chance to scan
my
| PC because the ActiveScan hadn't run with the partial download. The
download
| was about 50% done when this occurred.
|
| Can someone help me understand what happened here? Stupidly, maybe I ran
the
| scanner again and got the same message in the same place, Avast caught it,
I
| did a re-scan after removal and all is well, I hope.
|
| I have no symptoms or problems that I can find. I added Superspyware to my
| library after this incident, ran it and other then some tracking cookies,
PC
| was clean.
|
| I tried to run Housecalls after this. Housecalls took forever 'cause I'm
on
| dialup, and I couldn't get that scan to run at all. I couldn't find any
tips
| to smooth the process. I remember running Housecalls with IE6, but hadn't
| tried it before with IE7.
|
| Should the incident at Panda be of concern to me? Thanks.
|
|
|
|
|



Posted by DotNettie on March 26, 2007, 3:38 pm
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I have the full version of Spysweeper on my PC, so I amnot sure that this
will help me. Thanks

> http://www.spywaredb.com/remove-win32-ctx/
>
>
> | Call me Polly Paranoia, but I have a WinXP SP2 with all updates, Spybot
> S
> &
> | D, Ad-aware, Spysweeper and AVAST and Zone Alarm. I use both IE7 and
> | Firefox. I don't open unknown email nor do I click on pop-ups.
> |
> | I hadn't run an online scanner for sometime so I thought I would try
> Panda
> | ActiveScan. Bear in mind that just before I ran the online scanner, I
> ran
> | the above programs all of which were clean. However, during the Active
> Scan
> | download, I got a message from AVAST that said Win32:CTX has been found
> in
> | h t t p : //acs. pandasoftware. com / active scan. AVAST caught it. And,
> a
> | rescan indicated no infection. Active Scan did not have a chance to scan
> my
> | PC because the ActiveScan hadn't run with the partial download. The
> download
> | was about 50% done when this occurred.
> |
> | Can someone help me understand what happened here? Stupidly, maybe I ran
> the
> | scanner again and got the same message in the same place, Avast caught
> it,
> I
> | did a re-scan after removal and all is well, I hope.
> |
> | I have no symptoms or problems that I can find. I added Superspyware to
> my
> | library after this incident, ran it and other then some tracking
> cookies,
> PC
> | was clean.
> |
> | I tried to run Housecalls after this. Housecalls took forever 'cause I'm
> on
> | dialup, and I couldn't get that scan to run at all. I couldn't find any
> tips
> | to smooth the process. I remember running Housecalls with IE6, but
> hadn't
> | tried it before with IE7.
> |
> | Should the incident at Panda be of concern to me? Thanks.
> |
> |
> |
> |
> |
>
>



Posted by MAP on March 27, 2007, 2:55 am
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DotNettie wrote:
> I have the full version of Spysweeper on my PC, so I amnot sure that
> this will help me. Thanks

Spysweeper scans for malware NOT viruses which is what you or what Avast
said you have, spysweeper will not help you with this.
http://www.viruslist.com/en/viruses/encyclopedia?virusid=20455
Personally I would not use Avast on my machine, it is not all that good.

Download nod32,uninstall avast,install and update nod32 and scan your system
with it.
When the free 30 day trial is over BUY IT.
http://www.eset.com/


--
Mike Pawlak



Posted by cquirke (MVP Windows shell/use on March 26, 2007, 4:32 pm
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:29:17 -0400, "DotNettie"

>Call me Polly Paranoia, but I have a WinXP SP2 with all updates, Spybot S &
>D, Ad-aware, Spysweeper and AVAST and Zone Alarm. I use both IE7 and
>Firefox. I don't open unknown email nor do I click on pop-ups.

>I hadn't run an online scanner for sometime so I thought I would try Panda
>ActiveScan. Bear in mind that just before I ran the online scanner, I ran
>the above programs all of which were clean.

I've never understood the logic of "full system scan" online scanners.

Either there's nothing to find (so why bother) or what there is to
find is so crafty it's evaded all your other defences.

If the latter, then how do you know it isn't silently redirecting you
to a malware look-alike site?

If it does that, you will run ActiveX controls dropped from the site
and sit patiently online while it scans all your files "for viruses".
Or is it scanning for credit card numbers, passwords, email addresses,
ecommerce info, and other saleable demographic info?

How would you know the difference?

>However, during the Active Scan download, I got a message from
>AVAST that said Win32:CTX has been found in

> h t t p : //acs. pandasoftware. com / active scan.

>AVAST caught it. And, a rescan indicated no infection.

Avast, like any av, may look askance at an ActiveX control dropped
from a web site that immediately sets off to grope all the files on
the system. So it may be a heuristic false positive.

Or the site that is scanning you isn't Panda... IOW you went poking a
stick looking for tigers, and this time one found you.

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