Just found a potential Virus

[Denholm]

Why?

 I said nothing wrong. I even went as far to mention that he was hired by a company to do what I mentioned for the purpose of network security. All I was mentioning is if IE was used to help gain malicious access to a network, then why are we using it to browse the web?

[Vulcan]

Why?

 I said nothing wrong. I even went as far to mention that he was hired by a company to do what I mentioned for the purpose of network security. All I was mentioning is if IE was used to help gain malicious access to a network, then why are we using it to browse the web?

So if a remote server is compromised it is IE's fault?

Let me give you a clue where you are going wrong, what web server application were the remote servers running?

[humble]

IE sucks...period, however there are equal issues on the other end as well. This is further complicated by the fact that the entire DNS structure is vulnerable to posion cache attacks. This has been out there for awhile but generally unpublicized outside of blackhat circles. Basically you can hack anything from a single user user to a major corporation without even penetrating a single machine. This man in the middle strategy was usded at the DEFCON last week to hack the entire proceeding and not a SINGLE attendent picked up on it at all. So while 10,000 hackers were banging on each other every one of them was being hacked and couldnt pick up on it.

[Roughshod]

I had that same problem yesterday whenever I tried to open up a couple of directories in sequence, would have that spyware message and it did not matter whether I said yes or no, IE would open up to some site(cancelled it immediately).Had been trying to download a compilor without using torrent in its various pieces and then...Ja blush blush....the crack to make it work. the crack was a what caused the stuff to happen. so used note book to look at all the gibberish in the crack and found source code in it? It seemed to do stuff to the registry and also looked like adware.

Anyway, tried to restore registry using last known good configuration on startup...did not work. What worked was that program system mechanic which I do legally own and using its restore registry function.(i had upgraded programs since its last registry backup but they all still work thankfully)

[Skuzzy]

humble that security hole has already been addressed.  Of course there are many companies who do not pay any attention to CERT and that always will regret it.

This was not just a Windows issue.   If you want to know more, click it.

You will find the problem is easily avoided.