|
Post by andycole on Jul 8, 2008 10:23:15 GMT 2
Mike, just letting you know that I received a virus warning while opening this forum. the virus was Exp/MS04-28 contained in a jpeg file. This virus expoits a vulnerability on a DLL file and can allow for the execution of malicious code. I am guessing that the jpeg was in a banner ad.
Perhaps this could be reported to proboards? I'm sure that they don't want to be associated with advertisers who embed viruses.
The virus occured 09:05GMT today, if that's of any help.
Andy.
|
|
|
Post by mpanayiotakis on Jul 8, 2008 17:47:56 GMT 2
Virus in a jpeg file is impossible. It's probably a false alert. Which antivirus are you using ?
Michael
|
|
|
Post by conkers on Jul 8, 2008 23:43:31 GMT 2
|
|
|
Post by andycole on Jul 9, 2008 10:55:40 GMT 2
That MS article explains everything perfectly. I have an up to date OS and also a very good and up to date AV (Sophos). I guess that because of that, my system was never under threat, but the fact remains that the file was infected.
Andy.
|
|
|
Post by mpanayiotakis on Jul 9, 2008 15:14:57 GMT 2
Thanks for the information, microsoft's article doesn't explain this plainly, I had to look it up. And why would they, they screwed their code up one more time! It seems that Internet explorer 6 is affected by this so it's serious. Andy do you remember what was the ad about ?
Michael
|
|
|
Post by andycole on Jul 10, 2008 11:11:07 GMT 2
No, I don't, I may not have even seen it. I was using Opera at the time, not IE6, and the virus was in opera's cache, and immediately deleted by Sophos AV.
Andy.
|
|
|
Post by mpanayiotakis on Jul 10, 2008 17:30:28 GMT 2
Ok, I'll inform Proboards stuff.
Michael
|
|