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Question

Malware downloaded from cnet

Jan 15, 2012 2:54AM PST

Downloaded Firefox from Cnet and received an Avira notice
regarding: TR/Agent.1002472.1[trojan] - I
made the mistake of clicking on "details" instead of on
"remove" and haven't seen an option to remove it since.

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Answer
Re: downloaded firefox
Jan 15, 2012 3:01AM PST

Deleting that file should be sufficient. But you might like to upload to virustotal.com and see if other antivirus program agree with Avast about it containing a virus.

Wiping the empty sectors shouldn't be necessary, although it won't harm either if you have a program to do it.

By the way, it escapes me why anybody should download Firefox from CNET when there is www.mozilla.org to download it from.

Kees

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Malware downloaded from Cnet
Jan 15, 2012 5:39AM PST

Ironically enough, I usually download from Cnet to avoid viruses and malware. So much for that idea.

Thank you for the information.

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There are
Jan 15, 2012 6:02AM PST

plenty of discussions about this in these forums and in this forum in particular. Have a look at the Sticky discussion at the top of this forum for example.

The installer does not contain viruses. It may contain a toolbar or some utility that might be helpful to a user, but some of which may track a users web surfing. it's called Adware by many although it is not true adware.

Running the installer would have been fine as you will see the option to 'remove' this option before continuing.

Alternatively, you could have used the "Direct download link" underneath the green Download Now button and avoided the installer.

But I got my Firefox direct from Mozilla. You don't get viruses from recognised sites and businesses.

Mark