At the end of a busy day, yesterday, I did a string search for an IP address in all of the Word documents in my “My Documents” folder. Twice Avast stopped the search with a popup about ScriptBridge-inf and its association with a Word document created in the period 2008 - 2010. It also suggested a Smart Search. The Smart Search found no problems. A few hours earlier I ran Malwarebytes and it found nothing.
I thought I’d saved a few screen dumps in a Word document, just for the record. I must have closed it without saving because I can’t find anything this morning.
I thought I had a couple of screen dumps in a Word document. I must not have made it or closed it without saving. It was a long night and this was just one of many irritations, some much larger.
I immediately ran Smart Scan and it found nothing. Does it not find script/doc files.
The pop-up message cited “OLE:ScriptBridge-inf [Trj]” and it happened twice during the search.
Since they are older word documents, it seems to me they where created before the patch for the vulnerability was installed.
That sure would explain why newer documents where not flagged.
When Avast says it stopped something like the scriptbridge-inf trojan, and it tells me what file is impacted, is it ‘proud enough’ of its prowess to make an entry in a log file? If so, where should I look?