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.
