How often does you AV save you from an infection?

I'll clarify it.

OK, I checked that link you posted and loaded the "trojan" disguised as a jpg and nothing. A browser is not going to execute jpgs as javascript.

The contents of logo.jpg: http://pastebin.com/f78e90a58

So I guess that doesn't qualify as something that would have infected you.

Thanks for your info though.

I know the wow site was fixed. I went to the actual site that infects you...b35.info. The wow site loaded a file from there. From the thread at the wow site...

ten said:

Just to satisfy my curiosity.

How often does your antivirus programs stop an infection from happening? I'm not talking about things like play.exe renamed to mp3 files. My mom gets those all the time and they do nothing. A real infection. Also, what where you doing that caused it?

Thanks

Anti virus stops all of them (eset smart security & microsoft security essentials) and I was visiting a known propagating site. I visit alot of questionable sites (not adult) but have only been infected once

Ken

I also visit those types of sites but I've never been infected even without running any AV.

I think a lot of it is like that logo.jpg that Dixon Butz pointed me to. It's really a false positive even though it's malicious code. I kinda recall one hotfix for a gdi exploit in jpgs but that was patched a long time ago.

ten said:

I also visit those types of sites but I've never been infected even without running any AV.

I think a lot of it is like that logo.jpg that Dixon Butz pointed me to. It's really a false positive even though it's malicious code. I kinda recall one hotfix for a gdi exploit in jpgs but that was patched a long time ago.

the one time I got a nasty I had (yeah I know) disabled AV for some maint. thing and loaded an unknown disk. I get alot of false positives but nothing else. I have become so used to ESS doing its job I dont even really monitor like a hawk. MSE is a little touchy. It even thought its own virus defs were a virus

Ken

Have been running a netbook on public, free, and unsecured wifi for a month w/o any real-time AV (no infections). Hint: online scanners.