Virus alert?
10 Dec 2006 14:34:41 UTC
Topic 192172
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I got this message this message from my virus scanner this morning. C:\\Program Files\\BOINC\\slots\\1\\sequence.fasta (Backdoor.IRC.Ataka.f)Trojan. I hope to hell this is a false positive. Did any one else get this last night?
Virus alert?
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Please disregard, I detached and re-attached re-scanned and everything came up clean. Likely a false positive due to a corruption while downloading the wu. Will keep a close eye it just in case.
I am getting a message from
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I am getting a message from Norton Internet Security that essentially says that Einstein is trying to access my credit card information. Why is the program doing that?
It shouldn't be. I've run
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It shouldn't be.
I've run Einstein for over a year now and have not had any problems. I use Kaspersky Internet Security Suite.
Please post the exact message Norton is giving you.
It might be mistaking the communications between BOINC.exe and BOINCmgr.exe as malicious activity.
Kathryn :o)
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