Just surfing around minding my own biz when, my av program went hyper with a TROJAN warning and removal notice... sheesh, and on my brand new notebook, none the less!
McAfee detected the varmint in the 'Temporary Internet Files' of IE (of course) - it's official drive-by surf-by Trojan's exist.
The actual name of the file on my system was xcvb[1].pdf
Found in this folder: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\.....\ xcvb[1].pdf
Virus Profile: Exploit-PDF.g
| Risk Assessment | |
| - Home Users: | Low |
| - Corporate Users: | Low |
| Date Discovered: | 11/18/2008 |
| Date Added: | 11/18/2008 |
| Origin: | Unknown |
| Length: | N/A |
| Type: | Trojan |
| SubType: | Exploit |
| DAT Required: | 5438 |
Web Link:
Beware of Trojans! File name: xcvb[1].pdf
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