By accident I opened an empty page (one-click-too-far syndrome… happens ). As “show source” option revealed the page wasn’t empty, but contained some kind of bytecode written by JS’ document.write() function. What I’m concerned about is that avast! didn’t say a thing and I have reports of this being a trojan using popular communicator and yet another IE security hole to spread out. I have the source of the page saved in text file.
avast! version 4.7 Home Edition (4.7.892)
VPS compilation date: 2006-12-26
VPS file version: 0662-2
I would recommend running Housecall to get a second opinion. Also it would not hurt to run a Anti-Spyware scanner like Ad-Aware or AVG antispyware (formerly Ewido)
There’s always gonna be a hole in a browser, no matter which one. What I ment is that I probably caught a virus and if anyone is interested in learning more about it.
Housecall and AdAware found nothing odd (except usual amounts of tracking cookies), which leaves us with two possibilities: either the hole used by the virus got fixed, or it’s something new, not yet detected by any of these programs (nor avast!).
if the avast and trend micro engine found nothing I would not worry it sounds like you are virus-free. Just run windows update to get any security updates and make sure you run a firewall (even if its just the built in XP one)
). As “show source” option revealed the page wasn’t empty, but contained some kind of bytecode written by JS’ document.write() function. What I’m concerned about is that avast! didn’t say a thing and I have reports of this being a trojan using popular communicator and yet another IE security hole to spread out. I have the source of the page saved in text file.