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  1. #1
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    Default virus in free proxy software

    My humble apologies if this is the wrong place to post. Thought I should tell someone, and since I use and trust Spybot S&D I joined forum just to say:
    in the free proxy software 'socksfarm' from w3.proxyfarm.com, there is a virus. No idea what as my software (avast) flagged it with a big alert when I scanned the downloaded zipfile, and I deleted it. That's all. If posting inappropriate, again my apologies, and all the very best to you all.
    PS That'll teach me to try and surf anonymously

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    What you should do in such a case (virus) is submit the file to VirusTotal.

    They will test it using almost 30 antivirus engines with current detections and give you a report of the results. They will also provide the file and results to these antivirus vendors to update their database if necessary.

    Here are the results for the Socksfarm zip file from that site:

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    Complete scanning result of "socksfarm_1.0.zip", processed in VirusTotal at 09/26/2006 15:34:20 (CET).
     
    [ file data ]
    * name: socksfarm_1.0.zip
    * size: 916493
    * md5.: 6e617c0e0ae98b8c75e262a4d88cda14
    * sha1: 28d00602839789ea1c45fcdb8b53b4e0d51d7e4b
     
    [ scan result ]
    AntiVir		7.2.0.18/20060926	found nothing
    Authentium	4.93.8/20060925		found nothing
    Avast		4.7.892.0/20060926	found [Win32:Trojan-gen. {Delphi}]
    AVG		386/20060925		found nothing
    BitDefender	7.2/20060926		found nothing
    CAT-QuickHeal	8.00/20060926		found nothing
    ClamAV		devel-20060426/20060926	found nothing
    DrWeb		4.33/20060926		found [Trojan.DownLoader.9459]
    eTrust-InoculateIT	23.73.5/20060926	found nothing
    eTrust-Vet	30.3.3102/20060926	found nothing
    Ewido		4.0/20060926		found [Downloader.Small]
    F-Prot		3.16f/20060925		found nothing
    F-Prot4		4.2.1.29/20060925	found nothing
    Fortinet	2.82.0.0/20060926	found nothing
    Ikarus		0.2.65.0/20060926	found nothing
    Kaspersky	4.0.2.24/20060926	found nothing
    McAfee		4859/20060925		found nothing
    Microsoft	1.1603/20060926		found nothing
    NOD32v2		1.1776/20060926		found nothing
    Norman		5.80.02/20060926	found nothing
    Panda		9.0.0.4/20060926	found nothing
    Sophos		4.10.0/20060926		found nothing
    Symantec	8.0/20060926		found nothing
    TheHacker	6.0.1.081/20060926	found nothing
    UNA		1.83/20060925		found nothing
    VBA32		3.11.1/20060925		found [Trojan.DownLoader.9459]
    VirusBuster	4.3.7:9/20060926	found nothing
     
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    VirusTotal is a free service offered by Hispasec Sistemas. There are no guarantees about the availability and continuity of this service. Do not reply to this message. It has been generated by an automatic address that will not handle any reply. Although the detection rate afforded by the use of multiple antivirus engines is far superior to that offered by just one product, these results DO NOT guarantee the harmlessness of a file. Currently, there is not any solution that offers a 100% effectiveness rate for detecting viruses and malware.
    Note that only four AV products found something, though they tend to agree on some kind of Trojan Downloader. With this kind of result, I'd stay away from the file.

    Bitman

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