Trojan viruses on CanCon?

[YukonJack]

I have Microsoft Live One on my system. No problem.

 

[AnnaG]

Hopefully no-one gets an ornery sort like the one I got and their MacAfee, Norton , AVG, or whatever catches any that come around. I have a half dozen things protecting this thing, all have good reviews for what they do, but that one bug was a bitch.

 

[YukonJack]

AnnaG, both Norton and McAfee soaked me for additional pre-authorized credit card payment, long after I got rid of the useless bastards.

 

[AnnaG]

AnnaG, both Norton and McAfee soaked me for additional pre-authorized credit card payment, long after I got rid of the useless bastards.

Yeah. I got rid of them, too. Both are unnecessarily huge programs, as well. We have AVG's paid version (It has more protection than the free one) and is just as good or better and doesn't use up near as much room in the pc. It's also noticeably cheaper than Mac or Nort.

 

[ironsides]

McAfee is a freebie with "Comcast" my cable provider.

It seemed the Trojan was just a tracking program someone tried attacking us with. Luckily our security programs blocked it. It was not a malicious virus.

 

[DaSleeper]

Both IE and Firefox on my PC are set not to accept third party cookies....maybe that's why I didn't get any alerts....

 

[SirJosephPorter]

I have been on the forum every day for the past few days and I have never encountered a Trojan Horse. And my anti-virus (Norton) is capable of detecting a Trojan Horse, it has done so on occasion.

I doubt if there was any Trojan Horse, I think what DaSleeper says makes sense. Some anti-virus software, if they cannot recognize a code, probably call it a virus, a Trojan horse or something like that.

But I have never had a problem with CC.;

 

[shadowshiv]

Could it be that A V programs err on the side of security identifying a strange script as a virus.....I know that Norton...when you uninstall Teak UI will identify the uninstall program as a malicious script and prompt you if you want to use it anyway...

I have heard that sometimes an AV program can give out a "false positive" reading. I know that this has happened with a video game or two that had been "Modded". The file, for whatever reason, was being diagnosed as being a Trojan even though there was nothing wrong with it at all. This has also happened if a game has copy protection that may cause a "false positive"(SecureRom copy protection, for example).

I am not saying this was the case for Eaglesmack, but it can show that sometimes that can happen.