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Subject: Re: Trojan warning?[OT]

Author: Jeroen van Dorp

Date: 16:33:34 07/14/03

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On July 14, 2003 at 19:16:40, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On July 14, 2003 at 17:58:06, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:
>
>>I noticed logging in to various _geocities_ website (amongst them yours) that my
>>AntiVir program detects the Trojan KarmaHotel in the html-files. It must be
>>either a glitch in my AV-program, a false warning due to the geocities code
>>added to each page, or an overall infection of geocities, which seems unlikely
>>to me.
>>
>>Are there more people who have had this warning?
>>
>>J.
>
>I have had something similiar in the past, and just tried it again and did in
>fact get a virus warning.
>
>When scanning the actual temp internet file that is copied to your hard drive,
>it does in fact have that virus.
>
>Possibly Sarah accidentally uploaded an infected file? Or Geocities has
>something wrong with their server?



No, it's not Sarah's problem, as _my_ geocities sites gave the warning as well
as some from people I know. It's somewhere in the code geocities adds to a page
you download, a javascript.

I checked out the AntiVir forum, and it now _seems_ it's a glitch with AntiVir,
as other scanners didn't give an alert message. Probably be fixed in a day or so
with a next update of AntiVir.

http://www.free-av.de/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=12&t=001961

Sorry for the off topic message.

J.

J.





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