I ran a scan of a Windows XP Service Pack 2 system with an up-to-date version of Verizon Internet Security Suite on 2010-10-03. The software, which states it is "Powered by McAfee" reported the following:
During the full scan, McAfee detected one item that requires your attention. View the scan details to fix this issue now.
Results
Items Scanned: 324912
Items Detected: 88
Items Fixed: 87
Items Remaining: 1
Potentially Unwanted Programs Adware-Url.gen
Files Affected
C:\Program Files\Free Offers from Freeze.com\afactory.url
C:\Program Files\Free Offers from Freeze.com\bingocafe.url
C:\Program Files\Free Offers from Freeze.com\gamepipe.url
C:\Program Files\Free Offers from Freeze.com\gifart.url
C:\Program Files\Free Offers from Freeze.com\graflatscreen.url
C:\Program Files\Free Offers from Freeze.com\pcpowerscan.url
C:\Program Files\Free Offers from Freeze.com\spcasino_sep.url
I chose to have Verizon Internet Security Suite quarantine
the files. When I checked on what else it had found, I found it reporting
it had quarantined an instance of
Spy-Agent.bw!zip, which it found in a
file, bill.zip
, that it found at C:\Documents
and Settings\Jeanne\My Documents\Email\Embedded\bill.zip
, i.e., it
appeared to have quarantined an attachment to an email message. There was
no indication that the file had actually led to any infection of the system,
just that a zip file containing the malware had been detected. The webpage
for that malware contained a link to a McAfee webpage
Spy-Agent.bw, which
indicated McAfee first discovered that malware on August 20, 2007.
The scan also found a lot of cookies wich the antivirus program deleted, but I consider those fairly innocuous.