Trojan Warning

[Dilvish]

My McAfee antivirus is detecting the Exploit-IframeBO!shellcode trojan whenever I go to the Morrowind Source main page.

[Marxist ßastard]

Aah, McAfee is doing its job once again... Not by offering any real protection, mind you, but by lulling users into a false sense of security by doing completely inane things like setting up a proxy that removes specified strings from outgoing data and producing false positives.

 

Get a real antivirus, firewall, and proxy... Use Avast, Sygate, and Privoxy. That way, you won't have to worry about text-based heuristic scanning trashing any text file with the words "good times."

[Abramul]

I'm using AVG, is that any good? It's free, but I assume the ones you mention are too.

Also, could you give links?

[Switch]

I recommend against using Sygate... I didn't have very good experiences with it. Theta worships it though, so who knows :P it might have just been that I had Norton installed at the time (both the Firewall and Antivirus were shut off whenever I used it, though). Basically I was getting worms and viruses all the time and it wouldn't let me connect to any of my programs until I uninstalled it completely. Go figure.

[ThetaOrionis01]

I've had nothing but bad experiences with Norton, including a messed up registry :P

 

 

People on IRC I've asked to test my security have assured me that my system is safe. Online security checks give me the same result. So Sygate seems to work fine for me.

 

*shrugs*

 

I've used McAfee until the subscription ran out, and installed AVG instead - and AVG promptly found a couple of viruses McAfee seems to have missed.

 

*shrugs again*

 

I also use very restrictive cookie settings, which have kept my system spyware-free (regular Adaware and Spybot scans have shown up not a single spyware object since I changed my cookie settings) and I use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer.