Our family PC recently had a spate of virus alerts from MS Windows One Care. We would get about a dozen warnings for Win32/NewMalware, but the only remedy One Care offered was to "quarantine" the file that was causing the alert. Then you had to go into the "quarantined Items" settings manager and delete them one by one. This was starting to get very annoying, because we had to do this every day! I was also running Windows Defender, but obviously it wasn't doing it's job either!!
I figured we got infected somehow, even though we have a firewall and virus protection. Our ISP, Cox Communications, apparently wasn't able to filter this thing out either.
After doing a Google search on "NewMalware", I found a few old references to it on some anti-virus web sites. Following the recommendations on one site, I downloaded a couple of free anti-adware utilities(Ad-aware & Spywareblaster), and updated Spybot which I already had on the system. All 3 utilities found some problems. Ad-Aware seem to work the best and it offered an option to keep our PC from being infected (but I had to upgrade to the paid version for $29.00).
So far, we haven't experienced anymore problems with new alerts. I'm a little PO'd that "One Care" didn't protect us from the malware or give us an easy way to deal with it and then keep it out! I'm going to start calling it "None Care" if it continues to fail in preventing this kind of thing. It obviously has the heuristics to detect the problem, but they didn't bother to go the extra step and help the PC owner get rid of the offending file.
The new windows o/s, Vista, is supposed to have more security to it and incorporates the "One Care" and "Defender" in its security. Hopefully the people at MS have enhanced both utilities and not simply tacked them on top of the o/s. My advice to everyone is don't migrate to Vista right away, but let it mature a little before moving your PC to it.
Michael Horowitz has a very helpful page on his site ( http://www.michaelhorowitz.com/ )if you are having some of the same problems I did.
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