On Tuesday 04 December 2007 12:58, Nishit Dave wrote:
On Dec 3, 2007 10:08 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
The system was formated and reloaded. Just as I was leaving the place, I clicked on a download link for a software on download dot com and the same thing happened, but this time it could be recovered. The system is clean as I checked it with registry tools. The virus files are lying dormant, unused. Some were removed manually. They may get fully cleaned after a later AV update has its footprint.
This is something very recent
It is not, just that this virus has exposed itself.
Hmm.
Can an infected proxy server do that?
Very much if it's serving from cache. The linux proxy is not "infected" and will suffer no symptoms - just a carrier.