So, I hadn’t checked out my niece’s Blog in quite a while. This morning, I checked it out. I accessed it directly from the Link to the particular latest Blog Entry that my niece’s husband E-mailed me. Thus, I was on AOL at the time. Within about 3 seconds, avast alerts me that it has encountered a Trojan JS:ScriptlP-inf[Trj] in my Windows Local Settings Temp Folder. I moved it to the Virus Chest. I had a hunch, so I tried accessing the Blog Entry again. Again, I was alerted about the same Trojan. I moved it to the Virus Chest.
Okay, weeks or months back when I did used to check out my niece’s Blog, at that time, I used to always be informed while loading it that a Script or Java Script or something like that was making the Page load slowly and could conceivably lock up my computer. I would then be prompted if I wanted to abort the Script. I would of course always abort the Script.
Question #1: COULD those former Alerts of a Script / Java Script slowing down the loading of my niece’s Blog be related to this now present Alert of a JS:Script Trojan? I had always assumed those former Alerts were related to my niece’s Blog having some VidClip in there that would take a long time to load.
Question #2: I later accessed my niece’s Blog with Opera instead of with AOL as when I earlier accessed it from the E-mail Link. Interestingly enough, when accessing the Blog from within Opera, access would go through unhindered, with NO Alert of any Trojan. However, as soon as I would minimize Opera and bring AOL back up, avast would again alert me of the same JS:Script Trojan. What’s the deal? WHY would the Trojan Alert NOT pop up while on Opera? I wonder if it has anything to do with the alleged Trojan being in my Windows Local Settings Temp Folder vs. my Opera Browser Cache?
Sorry, but my crystal ball didn’t arrive at Christmas, so I’m going to need some help here, like the URL of the alert ?
Using a link in an email can be dangerous, even if you think the source genuine (easy to fake) as what is shown and what is the underlying email can be different, easy to fake.
If you have the file in temp then send it to virustotal.
Darn it, David. Sorry FedEx didn’t deliver your Crystal Ball on time for Christmas. ;D
Anyway, the problem has been fixed.
I commented in another thread over on the Viruses Forum. It’s on the thread about someone having avast going crazy with AOL 9.6.
As soon as I saw that thread title, I felt a sense of relief. I went, “THAT’s It! Some other AOL User is also having the same problem as me. It MUST be a False Positive.” Right at that time that I was reading that thread, avast started downloading the 2nd Virus Database Update for the day and it was only around midday. So, I figured it must be a FIX for the AOL problem.
Hey, but maybe a LOT of y’all will join the AOL bandwagon soon.
We got an official AOL E-mail that I believe they got some new Big Cheese who’s going to be revamping AOL Mail. I don’t remember exactly what though. I don’t need any more Bells & Whistles with it. I just want it to work all the time and not have this periodic Ssssslow typing acknowledgement bit.
I don’t have an Acoustic Coupler. I have a Tin Can Coupler. ;D
But, HEY! Y’all will be proud of me. Yesterday I made history.
I got me TWO Flash Drives! YES!
Finally I can now back up my stuff on this computer. On my other computer, my Windows 98 Gateway, I could back up my stuff on CDs. But, this HP Pavilion does NOT have a CD Burner, so for almost a year or however long I’ve had this used HP Pavilion, I’ve been operating without Backups! :o I was depending on that I wouldn’t have something seriously go wrong. Otherwise, I was gonna lose a LOT of stuff.
Well, I wouldn’t have to do a 100% from scratch start. I do have my Backup CDs from my other computer up to July of this year. It’s just stuff after that that I’d lose.
Unfortunately, Kenny, as per what I Googled some weeks or months back, my HP Pavilion 6730 is sooo OLD and was even Low End / Bottom of the Totem Pole in its heyday, that as per its design … it is already maxed out at 256 Meg of RAM. I cannot add any more RAM.
[b]Getting connected: a history of modems [/b]
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[i]By Tamsin Oxford[/i]
Their arrival heralded a new age of communications and they played a major role in the explosion of the internet. We’re talking, of course, about modems. Here we look back on the development of this remarkable device.
