sitemeter.com trojan

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Got this bugger from visitng the sitemeter.com blog page trying to find out about their recent problem with IEX.

http://virusinfo.prevx.com/pxparall....=12fa109109827

It came in a shockwave ad apparently.

Good example of why a software firewall is necessary. NOD32 caught (it said) the trojan as I entered the site and I chose to terminate the connection (recommended). Half an hour later my firewall, Comodo, caught it trying to send out data. If I'd been relying soley on the a/v I'd have thought it was caught and eliminated. Not so.

Also a good demonstration on a reason for making frequent disk images. Went back to a three day old clean image with Acronis.

But first I gave Malwarbytes scanner a chance to prove it's stuff. worked perfectly... see log. But I restored the image anyway just to be be double sure nothing was missed.

[Broni]

Ha, interesting....

[Welshjim]

More detail about the problem of Sitemeter blocking Websites (not the trojan). http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/08/fi...sitemeter.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...080200734.html

Per the first link, the problem of sitemeter blocking Websites has been fixed.