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OK, I now find myslef apologizing profusely for this matter because I can now download the LAN driverpack without any problem at all after rebuild which has me baffled immensely.   In my haste, I binned the XP build that affected my PC so I can't even scan it!.   I can't possibly imagine where I've picked this virus up from and Avast certainly didn't flag anything other than the LAN driverpack but it's now apparent this is not the case.   Egg on my face somewhat, I'm nevertheless relieved the driverpacks aren't affected and I think it's definately time for a new antivirus product as Avast obviously hasn't done it's job - moreso it was giving me wrong information the first time round, still can't put my finger on why it reported such and wrongly allowed what appears to be a Trojan into my system to do it's damage but hope I didn't cause any inconvenience to anyone here.
Somewhat embarassed, Marko

PS, just to be double certain I even scanned the pack using VirusTotal and clean bill of health throughout

OK, PC rebuilt, passwords all changed and breathing normally once again!.

Now as I say, I can't put the LAN pack at fault for the virus we received but as this has never happened to us before I'm merely going on circumstances, that being when I integrated the LAN pack into a new build of XP yesterday and rebuilt my machine we all of a sudden had our main site taken down and compromised.   Our host has confirmed that in his experience the problem could only have been caused by "a trojan/virus has obtained your FTP password and as such your files have been downloaded+modified+uploaded".

Our index file was downloaded and uploaded again in a matter of 3 seconds and many files on the server were modified to render the site useless.   They also attempted to include an iFrame in the site to potentially send our members viruses or redirect them to an undesireable site but they basically made a complete ass of things, bottom line is the succeeded in causing us grief.

I don't know how else you could double check the LAN pack and I understand it's obviously checked and used by many many people but in my case I can't put the Trojan down to anything else, I've trawled my own movements and can't recall any such warning on my AV for a long time - I sincerely hope it proves not to be the LAN pack but I thought I'd update you anyway, just in case.

Cheers
Marko

Thought that, but would av looked a little daft if I didn't ask and allowed a virus in knowlingly - I've used the driverpacks in the past no problem, just this version of Avast is shouting but hopefully he'll flag it to Avast and have it sorted
Cheers
Marko

Avast 21/10/2009 18:03:08
Version 091021-0
It's Avast Home Edition Beta

Hope that helps
Cheers
Marko