JS/Exploit-DialogArg Virus

[Ann]

A couple of days ago, I received an email from McAfee,
warning of potential viruses and offering a free scan. I
followed through with it, and it was discovered that I
had the JS/Exploit-DialogArg virus in "C:\install."

I have Norton Antivirus on my system (which I disabled
while running the McAfee scan), so I scanned my hard
drive, using Norton. It did not find a virus.

In looking at the files in my C:/ drive, I see
two "install" files: C:/install (HTML Document) and
C:/install (Cabinet File), both dated 5/17/04.

Should I delete these files, even though Norton did not
find a virus?

I have been receiving MANY infected emails lately (W32),
which Norton "catches," but cannot "repair." I chose
to "quarantine" them. Could these be the problem?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Ann

 

[Phil]

Read this and then follow the link to get the patch from MS.
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=99763

Also no need to quarantine viruses you get in email, just delete the virus
and the email.

 

[RobertVA]

Be VERY CAREFULL about emails like that. There are impersonators around!

 

[Plato]

Also no need to quarantine viruses you get in email, just delete the virus
and the email.

What happened to the good old days when viruses just attached themselves
to the end of a file and your anti-virus would just clean the file
leaving a few bytes on the end to make sure it didn't cut through the
meat.

 

[Plato]

Be VERY CAREFULL about emails like that. There are impersonators around!

Yet another reason to read your email in plain text. If in html, the
link may look perfectly legit, but in text, you can see how the sender
can actually redirect you to another address while at the same time your
browser will actually show you at the legit address.

In other words, you can fool a browser into displaying an address you
are not at.

 

[Phil]

What happened to the good old days when viruses just attached
themselves to the end of a file and your anti-virus would just clean
the file leaving a few bytes on the end to make sure it didn't cut
through the meat.

The virus writers got better.

 

[Ann]

Thanks, everyone!