PTE Forum website infected with trojan again

[fh1805]

Igor,

The forum website has become re-infected with a trojan again. This morning I was once again asked if I wanted to download some Remote Data Control software allegedly from Microsoft Corporation.

[mightec]

Peter/Igor

I have had the same experience as yesterday, on startup of PTE I was told by Norton that a TROJAN HORSE had been stopped. This is after I followed Peter's suggestion yesterday and deleted all of the Temporary Internet files.

[DimmY]

TROJAN HORSE is here for several days -- I confirm!

[wideangle]

My virus detection software identified something called Exploit.

[Igor]

I just sent again a request to Invision.

I'm sorry about this problem!

[mightec]

Igor

You will need to do something fairly quickly, I have just experienced another TROJAN HORSE alert, this time something called 'ODTHTIUH'

[fh1805]

Mike,

Just out of curiosity... what Norton product do you use? I, too, use Norton (Internet Security 2008) and it has never given me any alerts in a pop-up window. All I see is a pop-up banner in the IE window just below the tool bars with the warning message about the so-called Microsoft software.

Thankfully I'm savvy enough in IT to know that you don't touch these things, not even with a barge pole.

[mightec]

Peter

I have been using Norton Internet Security 2003 for a number of years and regularly update and maintain. The way in which it imforms me is as per the thumbnail below.

[Igor]

I've contacted to Invsion and they said that they cured this problem:

Please check and make sure this is no longer happening. We have just identified and fixed the problem that was causing viral popup notifications for some users.

IPS Support

[fh1805]

Thanks for the info, Mike

I guess the behaviour difference between your machine and mine must be down to a combination of the differences between Norton Internet Security 2003 on what looks like Windows XP (your machine) and Norton Internet Security 2008 on Vista (my machine).

Like you, I keep my protection files up-to-date - and the full scan at the weekend found nothing amiss. I also use Advanced WindowsCare Personal on a regular basis (about once per week) after Brian Conflow gave it a good report in one of his posts. It sometimes catches the occasional "malware" items that have slipped through Norton's normally secure grasp.

I firmly believe it is vital to have a layered defense on PCs these days.

Interestingly, I subscribe to another forum that uses Invision to power it and have had no trouble there. I wonder if Igor's site is being specifically targetted?