So, I woke up this morning to a warning from Symantec AV about 'Adware.mirar' apparently having infected iexplorer.exe. So, I use another computer and do some quick searching and mirar doesn't sound very pleasant, I let Symantec AV do its thing, 'infection' gone. I then run Spybot and see if it can find any stragglers; nope, just a few tracking cookies. System shows no other signs of a mirar infection. (Maybe SAV did just an amazing job of removing it?)

 

FYI -- I am running Symantec AV, v10.1.6.6000 as my anti-virus and Integrity Flex 6.5 as my firewall (both are home-use gifts from my company.) I also have Spybot 1.5.1 installed.

 

So, the first question I ask myself is... where on earth could this have come from (to prevent it from happening again)??? System had a full format and reinstall about a week ago and has all MS updates installed. Only new software beyond what I normally use on every system install is a MCE add-on called DVRMSToolbox I wanted to try from thegreenbutton.com -- file was actually downloaded from www.download.com. This seems to be the only logical explanation as it is the only 'new' thing to the system.

 

However, my pride and perhaps my arrogance seem to think this may have been a false positive.

 

Any thoughts?