Please help -- possible trojan -- I know where it is from

[Shoe]

McAfee popped up on my computer today saying I have a trojan called exploit-anifile.c

I got it from visiting a website I don't trust. (I know it used to be a safe site but hadn't been there in over a year). It says it cannot be removed (file in use).

I tried visiting the site on my other computer to make sure that is where i got it from, and that computer has a more recent version of mcafee, and blocks the trojan from being installed.

I am currently running a virus scan on my other comp (the one that says it could not remove the virus from) and plan to restart in safe mode and scan again after that is complete.

I am not sure if this is anything to be worried about. There is not much info on this that I have been able to find, other than the supposed risk is low. Anyone have any ideas or more info that they can add? Should I reformat my computer over this? Thanks in advance.

[Freakin]

link should be made non-linky

[Shoe]

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link should be made non-linky

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Edited the text to make it a non-link... I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the URL inserted by the forum software.

[Shoe]

Update: My virus scan just completed and found no infected files, although I never actually was able to remove the supposed infected file.

After I finish the tourney I'm in (I don't want to restart and enter my password again until I figure this out), I plan to restart in safe mode and scan again. If that comes back clean, how much should I continue to worry about this? I am paranoid and normally don't do anything that would really put my computer at risk.

[erbbysam]

This "exploit-anifile.c" was the recent 0-day Windows bug that was just patch by Microsoft, McAfee probably stopped it but you should:
1)update your computer(update.microsoft.com)
2)run the virus scan in safe mode
...also switch over to firefox if your not already using it

[Shoe]

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This "exploit-anifile.c" was the recent 0-day Windows bug that was just patch by Microsoft, McAfee probably stopped it but you should:
1)update your computer(update.microsoft.com)
2)run the virus scan in safe mode
...also switch over to firefox if your not already using it

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Thanks for the advice... all of my windows patches are up-to-date. I am currently running the virus scan in safe-mode (I am posting from a different computer), and I still use IE, but really should switch to firefox. The problem for me is that firefox is buggy for me. Half the time I have to CTRL+ALT+DELETE -> end teh firefox.exe process to get firefox to startup again after closing it. Although I don't remember this happening since the last firefox update, so maybe they fixed it.

[erbbysam]

there are a few other good free secure web browsers if firefox if giving you trouble... opera ( http://www.opera.com/ ) is very similar to firefox and considered to be just as secure.