Spinecast
May 22nd, 2002, 21:45
First of all, I hope I am putting this in the right forum, seeing as how I am new here.
Anyways...This first came to my attention by going a virus scan on my lap top and finding a corrupted .cab file in my temporary internet files. It has the words IEgator in the file name, and me not knowing anything about this, I did a search on it. Not really worried about what I had found because I do not have Gator installed on my lap top, I just deleted everything having to do with this .cab file.
Next day, I do another scan, and the file showed back up in the same place. This time I looked at what may have caused it. It was a pop-up from some website that I had visited with a script in it checking to see if I had Gator installed. Well, remembering that the pop-up file name was webpdp_v3_plugin.html, I figured I would pay more attention to the pop-ups that are on the sites I visit.
I know this is a long post, so I cut it short. When checking the site I was building on Hypermart (I have had free space with them for a year now, but just decided to start using it; but I noticed it's only a paid host now?) I noticed a pop-up that was below the browser view. Before the title showed up, I saw
webpdp_v3_plugin.html. So I did a quick virus scan, and yep...the corrupted IEGator cab showed up again.
The point: I am still not quite sure what this does. All I know is that this last time I tried to delete the corrupted .cab file, it failed because it was RUNNING. It may be harmless, but hearing about sites using code to slip a trojan through the Gator plugin, I was concered. Anyone else encounter this?
Again, if this is in the wrong forum, I appologize.
Anyways...This first came to my attention by going a virus scan on my lap top and finding a corrupted .cab file in my temporary internet files. It has the words IEgator in the file name, and me not knowing anything about this, I did a search on it. Not really worried about what I had found because I do not have Gator installed on my lap top, I just deleted everything having to do with this .cab file.
Next day, I do another scan, and the file showed back up in the same place. This time I looked at what may have caused it. It was a pop-up from some website that I had visited with a script in it checking to see if I had Gator installed. Well, remembering that the pop-up file name was webpdp_v3_plugin.html, I figured I would pay more attention to the pop-ups that are on the sites I visit.
I know this is a long post, so I cut it short. When checking the site I was building on Hypermart (I have had free space with them for a year now, but just decided to start using it; but I noticed it's only a paid host now?) I noticed a pop-up that was below the browser view. Before the title showed up, I saw
webpdp_v3_plugin.html. So I did a quick virus scan, and yep...the corrupted IEGator cab showed up again.
The point: I am still not quite sure what this does. All I know is that this last time I tried to delete the corrupted .cab file, it failed because it was RUNNING. It may be harmless, but hearing about sites using code to slip a trojan through the Gator plugin, I was concered. Anyone else encounter this?
Again, if this is in the wrong forum, I appologize.