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Trojan Horse (EclipseCrossword)
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frenchfrog
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Trojan Horse (EclipseCrossword)
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Hello, everyone!
Yesterday my antivirus detected a Trojan horse. The contaminated file was the one that installs the programme some of you may use to make crosswords: EclipseCrossword. So you may want to check the file (the extension of the file is .exe).
What I don �t understand is that I �ve had the programme for months and my antivirus detected the Trojan horse only yesterday! 
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27 Oct 2009
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Zora
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Hi there Frenchfrog 
If I am not mistaken, sometimes, a virus can stay hidden until a certain date when the programmer has coded it to become active. In other words, it stays inactive and it is seen as an inoffensive file/program by the anti-virus. That is why anti-virus need to be updated because until somebody finds/reports the virus/attack on their system, then the company can�t do anything to stop or detect it...
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27 Oct 2009
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Zora
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And sneaky too! 
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27 Oct 2009
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Yes, cyberpals. You�re right. I �m surrounded by concrete & steel firewalls up to claustrophobia.
My computer is constantly warning me: detected & killed. There! Another mosquito gone!  |
27 Oct 2009
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Mishuna
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Wow!! Updating my antivirus!!
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27 Oct 2009
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Samantha.esl
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Hi,
how do you check the program. I mean, do we have to scan it with the antivirus?
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27 Oct 2009
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Sam, this is how mine works. Whenever he detects one, he warns me: virus detected & rejected or & file cleaned.
However, yesterday, my computer wouldn �t let me download a wk from this site, at all. Virus! I don �t remember, neither the virus type, nor the wk I was trying to dowload from the recent contributions, that �s all I can say: there was some kind of virus on, yesterday.
Best regards,
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27 Oct 2009
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