virus

Just finished the weekly virus scan. This is my 1st firefox virus.
It was found in this folder
C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rrhnb7b2.default\Cache
one of the 242 files in there had a html.ht malware.

I recently switched from IE7, because it was taking 10 minutes to open every
page, including those on open tabs.

Any ideas on how this slipped under my 24/7 trend scanner ?

I'd really not want to take and go back to ie7, but I can't recall any virus
going thru IE to it's cache.

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On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:53:46 +0200, Mel <mel@nowhere.com> wrote:

>That is, have you taken measures to protect Firefox by defining the 
>appropriate user preferences (refer to Tools menu, select Options)?

What is that supposed to mean ?
Trend has been running 24/7 for the past 10 years.
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:53:00 +0300, Aggro <spammerdream@yahoo.com> wrote:

>keepout@yahoo.com.invalid wrote:
>> Just finished the weekly virus scan. This is my 1st firefox virus.
>> It was found in this folder
>>
C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rrhnb7b2.default\Cache
>> one of the 242 files in there had a html.ht malware.
>> 
>If you still have the file and if you feel capable enough, put it inside 
>a zip file and send it to my e-mail (and post here a message informing 

I just deleted it.
>me about it). Or if you know where to get it, post an url, but post the 
>url in two peaces so no-one and accidently click it.
>
>Or if your virus-scanner is able to, search from it's log files more 
>information about this malware. I tried searching with name html.ht, but 
search at trend micro. It's fairly serious to them.
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keepout@yahoo.com.invalid schreef:
> Just finished the weekly virus scan. This is my 1st firefox virus.
> It was found in this folder
> C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rrhnb7b2.default\Cache
> one of the 242 files in there had a html.ht malware.
> 
> I recently switched from IE7, because it was taking 10 minutes to open
every
> page, including those on open tabs.
> 
> Any ideas on how this slipped under my 24/7 trend scanner ?
> 
> I'd really not want to take and go back to ie7, but I can't recall any
virus
> going thru IE to it's cache.
> 
That's probably not detected in IE, if I'm not mistaken. Were you 
actively running internet security when loading the bad page, by the 
way? That is, have you taken measures to protect Firefox by defining the 
appropriate user preferences (refer to Tools menu, select Options)?

Regards,

On 4/14/08 11:42 AM, _keepout@yahoo.com.invalid_ spoke thusly:
> Just finished the weekly virus scan. This is my 1st firefox virus.
> It was found in this folder
> C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rrhnb7b2.default\Cache
> one of the 242 files in there had a html.ht malware.
> 
> I recently switched from IE7, because it was taking 10 minutes to open
every
> page, including those on open tabs.
> 
> Any ideas on how this slipped under my 24/7 trend scanner ?
> 
> I'd really not want to take and go back to ie7, but I can't recall any
virus
> going thru IE to it's cache.

See 
<http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+cache+file+was+infected+with+a+virus&g
t;

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Chris Ilias <http://ilias.ca>