worms in sl?

my antivirus keeps picking up a vhm family worm and a trojan thats it says i located in documents and settings/secondlife folder. ive gotten rid of them before and then they seem to come back. is anyone else finding these and if so how do i kill them lol .
thanks

false virus positive , can be on some virus programs, depends on wich you use, kind of early "suspect" alike virus behavior detection ,usually false.

Got the name of it?, prob something c80260ba-41fd-8a46-768a-6bf236360e3a.tmp or the other numbersomething.exe , usually when you update you get a random one there.

My gut reaction to seeing something like that in my SL cache would be to think that it is a false positive. But one never knows… If possible, you may want to get in touch with whomever makes your malware scanner. They may be interested in seeing a copy of the file, to a) refine their signatures and avoid false positives or b) confirm that it is really something that you need to take off your system.

thanks for the responses! im doing just that

It is possible to get a virus just by simply watching media using the standard method of media broadcasting, if the source is infected. Some content comes from peer to peer sources which have been aligned with the spread of viruses. One of the reasons we adopted the Silver Stream Network, and only use secure content.

I have had the same probs with the nassy trojan....my norten antivirus detected it, cleaned it up. All that I can suggest is that you should make double-triple sure that your anti-virus is up to date. The one that I use is normally pretty good at detecting worms, virus' and other misc. bugs and nasties.....

Another suggstion is a spy-ware detector. I run mine daily and it dectects the spyware that is collected via various web sites, which in turn slows down ones sytem AND collects various bugs, not just in SL....

Good Luck, hun

PS...please ignore the typo's lol

Yes. Google for Quicktime Security. In the past it was possible to make a movie or image that made Quicktime crash in such a way you could make it do things it wasn't supposed to do. =^.^=

Edit: here it is. ^^

Just to update, if you get a buffer overrun issue, or 'cannot resolve url', 'unknown media format type' with Quicktime, there is a high chance you have been infected by a worm or trojan. You may wish to try your own Virus checker supplier for a solution, or use this 'vcleaner' here [url=http://www.grisoft.com/doc/52/us/crp/0

Before doing so, uninstall QuickTime and clear the SL and IE/Browser caches and cookies. Running the vcleaner in safe mode on each PC on your system, one at a time (all others turnned off) is recommended.

Once done, reinstall QuickTime and make sure the settings in the preferences are set to Safe GDI mode and not the DirectX settings.