According to the McAfee site, they updated their DAT virus database on 5/19
to remove the proxy-oss.dll virus. They first added it to their virus
dictionary on 4/21.
The way a virus can get in undetected by your McAfee VirusScan is if you
are one of the first to get the virus, McAfee will not have added it to
their DAT file and distributed it yet. That's a good reason to do a full
disk scan after downloading a new DAT file.
You are doing almost all you can do with a virus scan kept up to date and
not opening attachments. Also running a firewall and keeping up to date on
Security patches as they are released by Microsoft is the other thing to
do. The Sassar worm did not require an attachment to be opened to spread,
if the machine was not behind a firewall and a certain Windows security
patch had not been installed.
Doug
At 5/17/2004 07:43 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>I get a report from Mcafee that I have two unwanted programs in my
>windows\system32 file. They are proxy-oss.dll and
>
>
>I have done a chat with a Mcafee tech twice. They tell me to run in safe mode,
>do a scan and delete the file. I have done that and it says they cannot be
>deleted. I have quarantined the files multiple times and tried to delete them
>there and they still return.
>
>1. What are they and should they be removed? How?
>
>2. Since I have Viruscan constantly updating how did they get in?
>
>Also, I am getting constant messages that Mcafee found a virus
>netsky.d.eml!exe
>in a temp file (Temp\McV271.tmp). It says it was deleted, so I assume there is
>no problem, but I can not find a description of the virus or what problems it
>causes.
>
>3. Other than keeping my antivirus program up to date and not opening
>attachments, is there anything else I should be doing to be safe? What about
>downloading programs? Should I assume that anything unwanted will be caught by
>my AV program that should be?
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