Articles Archive for 11 February 2010
Posted in CA Security Advisor on 11 February 2010
Win32/AVClean.A variant is a Trojan disguised as legitimate anti-virus and anti-spyware software. FakeAV variants prompt the user with false warnings, popups, and fake scan results, and may also download additional malware.
Should you have this detection reported on a file that you normally use, we highly recommend that you submit a sample of the affected file to CA Anti-Virus Research for…
Posted in CA Security Advisor on 11 February 2010
Win32/ShIMBot.A variant propagates itself across network through MSN, AIM and AIM Triton messengers.
This worm also includes the following features
1) Capability to spreads via peer-to-peer networks such as KaZaa, Limewire, Morpheus, Emule, EDonkey2000, Bearshare, Grokster, ICQ and KaZaa lite. It uses any of the following names: …
Posted in CA Security Advisor on 11 February 2010
Win32/DieDreamBHO.A variant is a Trojan that registers itself as a Browser Helper Object (BHO) and steals information about a user’s Internet browsing.
Should you have this detection reported on a file that you normally use, we highly recommend that you submit a sample of the affected file to CA Anti-Virus Research for analysis.
For detailed instructions on how to submit samples to CA, please…
Posted in CA Security Advisor on 11 February 2010
Win32/PackAntiVirus2010.A variant is a Trojan disguised as legitimate anti-virus and anti-spyware software. FakeAV variants prompt the user with false warnings, popups, and fake scan results, and may also download additional malware.
Should you have this detection reported on a file that you normally use, we highly recommend that you submit a sample of the affected file to CA Anti-Virus Research…
Posted in CA Security Advisor on 11 February 2010
PDF/Pidief!Generic is a variant of a maliciously crafted PDF file designed to exploits known Adobe PDF vulnerabilities. Successfully exploited PDF files allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code. Furthermore, this is a heuristic detection for compressed and obfuscated PDF/Pidief variants.
Should you have this detection reported on a file that you normally use, we highly recommend that…
Posted in CA Security Advisor on 11 February 2010
Win32/AntivirusLive.H variant is a Trojan disguised as legitimate anti-virus and anti-spyware software. FakeAV variants prompt the user with false warnings, popups, and fake scan results, and may also download additional malware.
Should you have this detection reported on a file that you normally use, we highly recommend that you submit a sample of the affected file to CA Anti-Virus Research for…
Posted in CA Security Advisor on 11 February 2010
Win32/FakeCodec!generic is heuristic detection for packed, encrypted or compressed malware.
Should you have this detection reported on a file that you normally use, we highly recommend that you submit a sample of the affected file to CA Anti-Virus Research for analysis.
For detailed instructions on how to submit samples to CA, please see below.
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Submitting Malware SamplesPlease visit…
Posted in CA Security Advisor on 11 February 2010
Win32/Oficla.BK is a trojan that downloads other malicious files from the Internet.
Should you have this detection reported on a file that you normally use, we highly recommend that you submit a sample of the affected file to CA Anti-Virus Research for analysis.
For detailed instructions on how to submit samples to CA, please see below.
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Submitting Malware SamplesPlease visit our…
Posted in CA Security Advisor on 11 February 2010
Win32/Oficla.BB is a trojan that downloads other malicious files from the Internet.
Should you have this detection reported on a file that you normally use, we highly recommend that you submit a sample of the affected file to CA Anti-Virus Research for analysis.
For detailed instructions on how to submit samples to CA, please see below.
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Submitting Malware SamplesPlease visit our…
Posted in CA Security Advisor on 11 February 2010
Win32/Tnega.ADN is a trojan that drops a malicious DLL component file and connects to a server for its Backdoor routines.
Should you have this detection reported on a file that you normally use, we highly recommend that you submit a sample of the affected file to CA Anti-Virus Research for analysis.
For detailed instructions on how to submit samples to CA, please see…






