Well, I certainly would not describe OneCare as “adequate protection”. It simply isn’t up to the job.

Interesting. My AVG virus scan detected a Zlob trojan during its overnight scan on Friday. What gets me is that none of the so-called real-time scanners I have running (and apparently wasting system resources) detected anything. Maybe that was a false positive, too.

It all seems to be sort of a crap shoot to me. One day, nothing…then, all of a sudden a virus scan detects a virus or two (in directories where nothing seemed to change).

hunting for virus and similar is like hunting for terrorists. these days one is just as likely to get a civilian as the real deal…

In 2006 Spybot’s flagged some key Tablet PC functionality as a threat. Details are at http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=8668. The “new” material on the system was the new Spybot definitions, which unfortunately had an error.

I stopped to eat so didn’t write the CAPTCHA till after – my comment is obviously moot.

In my copy of OneCare I can see an option to display what the last virus scan discovered.

Glad you survived it.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/encyclopedia/details.aspx?name=TrojanDownloader%3aWin32%2fZlob.gen!AW&threatid=2147603587

The telling criteria that this is likely a false positive is the date the threat was added by MS- yesterday. So most likely OneCare updated its threat signatures last night and this morning tagged this as a threat. It’s the first false positive (if that’s indeed what this is) that I’ve encountered with OneCare and I’ve been using it since it first went beta. Live and learn.

I also wonder if onecare got tricked into thinking the fuji utlities were a trojan. Seems odd to have that be the only things affected.

I would agree with Jake, it sounds like it could have been a false positive. If you review your Application and System event logs, it may have logged the name of the trojan, Symantec antivirus does, at least with the corporate version.

Oh yeah, I meant to apologise if my post seems overly paranoid. I didn’t get much sleep last night due to a combination of noisy neighbours and the switch to daylight savings here in the UK :)

It’s a shame that you didn’t note the trojan because it would be interesting to know if OneCare did detect a real trojan or misidentified one of Fujitsu’s apps. It seems strange that the cleanup would have targeted your Fuji utilities unless it was a false-positive. Does OneCare keep a history of the files it’s cleaned up?