Trend Micro: HouseCall contains virus?!

[DelJo63]

December 22, 2008 (Computerworld) A bug in Trend Micro Inc.'s free online virus scanning service can be used by hackers to hijack Windows PCs running Internet Explorer, security researchers warned.

Attackers able to dupe users into visiting a malicious Web page could exploit a vulnerability in the custom ActiveX control that Trend Micro distributes to users of its free HouseCall service, said Danish bug tracker Secunia ASP in an alert posted Sunday.

See the article (ie click Computerworld)

 

[Route44]

jobeard, thanks millions for this important piece of information. I have been helping someone rid their system of viruses, etc. I almost used Trendmicro's online scan to help in the process. Glad I utilized NOD32 instead.

 

[Bobbye]

Thanks jobeard.

Users running Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer -- the only browser that requires the ActiveX control -- should run Version 6.6 of the service rather than the older HouseCall 6.5, said Secunia.

In my opinion, another vote for using a browser other than IE!

 

[SNGX1275]

Nod32's online scan on http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/ is pretty good. I've been using that a lot more on suspected infected systems because I don't think I've successfully ran Trend Micro's scan in well over a year on any system.