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Bullfrog · 22-10-2006, 13:34

OK I have got to own up ! After doing a thorough scan with Kaspersky online scanner I found two potential viruses culprites buried deep in my email folders.

One was a phishing link for a paypal scam which I had reported and the other an unknown attachment which I had never opened on principle. Since I backup my email to independant partitions and IDE I had three copies of each on the same rig.

They were not active but I think they were triggering Trend so not a false positive exactly but I think the phishing link must have been recognised as a component of the key logger even though I was not infected due its inclusion in Trend's recognition data.

So not false positives IMHO but not necessarily an active infection.

22-10-2006, 13:34	#19
Bullfrog Inactive Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Rushden UK Age: 60 Services: ntl cable and ISP Posts: 32	Re: tspy - Trojan keylogger OK I have got to own up ! After doing a thorough scan with Kaspersky online scanner I found two potential viruses culprites buried deep in my email folders. One was a phishing link for a paypal scam which I had reported and the other an unknown attachment which I had never opened on principle. Since I backup my email to independant partitions and IDE I had three copies of each on the same rig. They were not active but I think they were triggering Trend so not a false positive exactly but I think the phishing link must have been recognised as a component of the key logger even though I was not infected due its inclusion in Trend's recognition data. So not false positives IMHO but not necessarily an active infection.