Re: Trojan warning

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"Monkey" <mnreese@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I have the same problem with the full version of McAfee with a script
> that I wrote. It gives the same error. I'm not sure, but I believe
> that it is anything that uses the "Microsoft. XMLHTTP" object. It is a
> real pain. I contacted Mcafee tech support about this issue and they
> were pretty useless. They finally got back to me today and told me to
> disable the script scanner and that I was out of luck with this issue.
> Because it detects it as a virus before I even run the script,
> disabling the script scanner doesn't work. My script downloads a file
> from our intranet, extracts it, then pushes a file within it out to all
> of our application servers. I wrote the whole thing myself in notepad
> and so I know that it is not infected with the VBS/Psyme Trojan that
> McAfee reports. At work we use a different Anti-virus software and it
> doesn't report it as a virus. I have always been happy with McAfee
> until today.
>
> Michael Reese
> Information Systems Technician
> US Coast Guard
>
Thanks for the reply.
You say: I wrote the whole thing myself in notepad and so I know that it is
not infected with the VBS/Psyme Trojan that McAfee reports.
I believe that the definition of the VBS/Psyme Trojan is: a script that
downloads a file from the internet and executes it or sends it somewhere
that it might be executed. If that is the definition that McAfee uses, then
you have written a virus with notepad.

I have a similar XMLHTTP tool. And I'd like to be able to tell McAfee to
just leave it alone. Splitting things up into separate files has tricked
McAfee into leaving my stuff alone. But my computer downloads McAfee
updates daily, so I never know when my trick will fail :-(



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