Strange Virus Warning

[Spontz]

<p>Tonight, while wandering around in Lavastorm, ESET NOD32 Antivirus popped up the oddest warning.  It told me that what was probably a version of the "PDF/Exploit.Gen trojan" had attempted to access a strange URL ending in "pdfNode.php," and that the threat was detected upon access to the Web by EverQuest2.exe.</p><p>I logged out and did a full scan of my computer with both the antivirus program and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.  Nothing suspicious was found.</p><p>Would anyone have any idea what that was all about?</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Ilmarinen@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Tonight, while wandering around in Lavastorm, ESET NOD32 Antivirus popped up the oddest warning.  It told me that what was probably a version of the "PDF/Exploit.Gen trojan" had attempted to access a strange URL ending in "pdfNode.php," and that the threat was detected upon access to the Web by EverQuest2.exe.</p><p>I logged out and did a full scan of my computer with both the antivirus program and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.  Nothing suspicious was found.</p><p>Would anyone have any idea what that was all about?</p></blockquote><p>more then likely a false positive on the av, have seen false positives do a lot worse to home systems. You dod te right thing to scan your system, although a additionalstep would have been to been to utilze a independant online scanner to verifiy</p>

[Spontz]

<p>I also changed my password, just to be safe.</p><p>If it was a false positive, what could cause such a specific one?  It listed a URL with which my computer was supposedly trying to make contact.  (I'm only not listing that URL here in case there are rules against such things -- for instance, if it's a real site that sponsors virus attacks.)</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p>Greetings,</p><p>While I don't know what initiated that specific warning, I have had similar warnings in the past when playing games online.  Those scanners are usually pretty loose in their interpretation of 'virus like' activity.  In this situation it was probably a combination of EQ2 and something in the background that made the antivirus suspicious.</p>

[Spontz]

<p>Thanks... I hope that's all it was. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>