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trend micro rubotted reports malicious dns query when accessing and reading release note page for 3.6.7 update

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Trend Micro RUBotted.exe reports the above. The recommended scan, Trend Micro House Call, completes in 2:40 minutes and does not find a bot on my system. I have done the above action twice, (reading and opening release note fixes) and both times the same identical warnings appeared. My system appears to be clean. However, the RUBotted.exe program is designed to flag bot-like behavior, and I think this finding is correct, and not a false-positive. This only happens when this page is opened, and I therefore think there is an embedded link that cannot be seen, and is run when this page is opened. I did update to version 3.6.7, but scanned the system before and after I updated to 3.6.7. Results are identical.

This happened

Just once or twice

== I was looking at the latest fixes for Firefox 3.6.7

Trend Micro RUBotted.exe reports the above. The recommended scan, Trend Micro House Call, completes in 2:40 minutes and does not find a bot on my system. I have done the above action twice, (reading and opening release note fixes) and both times the same identical warnings appeared. My system appears to be clean. However, the RUBotted.exe program is designed to flag bot-like behavior, and I think this finding is correct, and not a false-positive. This only happens when this page is opened, and I therefore think there is an embedded link that cannot be seen, and is run when this page is opened. I did update to version 3.6.7, but scanned the system before and after I updated to 3.6.7. Results are identical. == This happened == Just once or twice == I was looking at the latest fixes for Firefox 3.6.7

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Trend Micro has a record of "false positives". Report the problem to them and let them investigate. Please post your results back in this thread for information for other users.

I have submitted hijackthis and CIS logs to Trend Micro. TM is reporting system as clean.

Submit this as a false-postive.