is this a false alarm from Norton for a trojan horse

[tooltime]

norton popped up an alert of "Trojan Horse" while at a site (kbb.com) and the norton link describes this as a "generic trojan horse" threat.

step 4 is to scan the pc and write down the names of infected files but there were no infections (definitions are up to date, settings were for all files, ran it in safe mode)

i'm wondering if this could be a false alarm? anyone seen this before? i'm thinking the web page visited met some of the characteristics of a trojan, enough to trigger the alarm but not enough that norton has it in their encyclopedia. are there other checks to run?

system is a few months old dell laptop, xp

 

[GTiBri]

Well, considering that I've read news reports of a number of popular websites getting hacked (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/06/24/internet.attack.ap/index.html) I would think that it may be a legitimate threat.

Check carefully on the norton dialog that pops up. I've seen web based threats that it says "delete succeded." or quarantine succeded. If it says that, then it is just deleting the file before it gets ran.

 

[ISAslot]

Among the several Web sites hit were kbb.com, the Internet address of the Kelley Blue Book automobile pricing guide, and MinervaHealth, a healthcare financing company based in Jackson, Wyo.

Link

 

[tooltime]

thanks for the stories

after running a system scan norton found nothing

i've heard of a program to run called hyjackthis, it produces a log that can be looked at...heard of this?

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: tooltime
thanks for the stories

after running a system scan norton found nothing

i've heard of a program to run called hyjackthis, it produces a log that can be looked at...heard of this?

I have and use the HijackThis! program.