When I booted up my Dell C521, XP(MCE), this AM I was immediately
greeted by a popup. I think it was about ADOBE, but I didn't jot it
down and now I'm not sure that it said Adobe. Weak memory, sorry.
Anyway, it announced a new Active X update (something Version 10)and
asked me to click if I wanted to download and install it. At the same
time my ZoneAlarm firewall reported that "updatesomething.exe" wanted
to connect to the internet. Sorry but I don't remember exactly what
the exe program was - same weak memory. I almost clicked, but thought
better and closed the popup and denied access to the internet.
A little later I ran spybotSD and it found something called spywareBOT
which turns out to be an empty directory at
C:\programfiles\spywareBOT\. There were no files shown inside the
directory. This directory was not on my machine two days ago, the last
time I ran spybotSD.
I clicked the 'fix the problem' button and spybotSD deleted the
directory.
Now I wonder if that "active X update" was really getting ready to
copy malware to my computer. That updatesomething.exe may have created
the new directory "spywareBOT" under ProgramFiles to receive whatever
it was that would have been downloaded.
What do you think?
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