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Possible trojan in updating in VirtualBox
« on: July 16, 2018, 10:21:03 AM »
 

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I have VirtualBox and did updates yesterday and my Avast anti-virus detected a possible trojan (ELF:Agent-RA) in the Adobe Flash Player-plugin update and stopped the updates. Just want to check if this is a known detection and if not this might be something to be careful about installing.
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Re: Possible trojan in updating in VirtualBox
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2018, 11:09:56 AM »
 

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Could be taken as Mirai by your AV scanner. See below.

http://blog.malwaremustdie.org/2016/08/mmd-0056-2016-linuxmirai-just.html

Are you playing any games that are asking for flash player updates in order to play?

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Re: Possible trojan in updating in VirtualBox
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2018, 05:00:47 PM »
 

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No, I dont play any games; the AV just picked it up when Lite was updating and the  AV blocked the FlashPlayer plugin update. I think the rest of the updates was correct.
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