Well its a trojan actually.
My main windows machine has been hit with a trojan,
Its the "win32/sirefef.ah" & win32/sirefef.ac trojan. It arrived on the 8th, through a an infected web site that provides music lyrics.
The pc (windows 7) was up to date with updates and MS Security Essentials was up to date with its signature files, but java was not up to date. Not sure how it got in, think Nicole may have accepted a box to download a (fake) java update.
Anyway, symptoms are that MS Security Essentials finds it, removes it, but it comes back shortly after and the cycle repeats. Web sites are redirected.
Currently running Malwarebites, anti malware, more as a first step than anything, but as this appears to be a root kit it probably won't deal with it. Think I have located a tool to eradicate it if it doesn't.
I'll let you know the outcome.
However this one seems pretty recent (in its current form), so don't accept Java updates or any other form of update if a web site suggests it. Always get updates from the program source.
Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 10 Apr 12 at 13:57
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Virus, A warning new
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