I recieved some alerts from my Sygate Firewall. I queried them about it and they say it may be a new virus. I have run a full virus scan + spyware scan and haven’t come up with anything.
Here’s abrief summary of what I’ve been dealing with:
Application Hijacking has been detected
The application: C:\WINDOWS\NV_SS_US_6Series.exe.scr try to launch another application: C:\Program Files\Google\Gmail Notifier\gnotify.exe to go to remote host gmail.google.com
C:\WINDOWS\NV_SS_US_6Series.exe.scr is a screen saver but it shouldn’t be trying to launch other programs.
Interesting that it has two extensions… Are you sure it’s screensaver. Try to send this file to other online scanner. Here’s link to kaspersky online scanner which scans separate files http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus Good luck.
Submit the file to Jotti and let us know the results, i.e., if it is or not a false positive.
If you are getting a virus warning that you believe is a false positive, then if you can zip and password protect (‘virus’, will do) the suspect file and send it to virus (at) avast.com.
Give a brief outline of the problem, the fact that you believe it to be a false positive and include the password in the body of the email. Some info on the avast version and VPS number (see About avast: right click avast icon) will also help.