Quicken Trojan Horse

Oct 14, 2008 5 Replies

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Don 17 years ago

I received the following this morning:

online.exe Trojan horse PSW.Agent.VQA Location: C:\Program Files\Quicken\net\common\ocalweb\showme\online.exe

quicktour.exe Trojan horse PSW.Agent.VQA Location: C:\Program Files\Quicken\net\common\ocalweb\showme\quicktour.exe

My virus scanner got rid of them, but I'm wondering where they came from. I don't use Quicken online.

As I understand it, these are not viruses, but some kind of a threat of a trojan horse nature that would invade my computer if the programs were run. Is that correct?

Would appreciate some insight on the subject.

Don

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R. C. White 17 years ago

Hi, Don.

Which version of Quicken? Which version of Windows, including SP level? (See my Sig for my versions.)

I don't even have a "net" subfolder within my Quicken folder.

HOW did you "receive" these files this morning? Did you download them from somewhere?

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wbertram 17 years ago

I received a similar warning from the AVG AntiVirus program this morning. Except that AVG said the suspect Trojan files were in the ZoneAlarm folder! The AVG program "isolated" the suspect files, and I have no further notices. A subsequent AntiVirus scan found no problems.

Something funny going on, but I don't know what.

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Gil Faver 17 years ago

I think AVG just upgraded itself, but is confused.

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Don 17 years ago

My AVG scan caught them also.

R. C. White: I use Vista Home Premium and Quicken 2003

I have no idea how those files got on my computer.

Yes, something strange.

D> D>> I received the following this morning:

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scott s. 17 years ago

Don wrote in news:gd39gg$60k$ snipped-for-privacy@aioe.org:

AVG often comes up with false positives. I would not take any un-reversible action based on AVG without confirmation from other places.

scott s. .

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