Possible virus on my server

[DaJe]

So recently, a friend of mine said he thinks I have a virus on my server. A little bit ago, I was uploading some files and Norton popped up saying I have a Download.Trojan in my temporary internet files. So I started thinking, maybe I do have one there. Is there a way for me to detect and delete any viruses from my server?

[stevel]

It's very unlikely that you have a virus on the Poweb server. If you were uploading files, sometimes Norton Internet Security (or Personal Firewall) gets confused by the network activity and thinks there's a trojan on your PC. Newer versions don't seem to do this as much.

What do you use to upload files to the web server? FTP FrontPage? Something else?

[DaJe]

I use SmartFTP.

[stevel]

Ok. Well, Temporary Internet Files is used by MSIE and therefore it would not have anything to do with uploading to your site.

[DaJe]

Well, even though he knows absolutely nothing about anything, he still insists I have a worm there. And now he's convincing other people there is too, though I'm pretty sure there's not. I'd still like to know if there's something I could do to confirm whether there is or not.

[stevel]

Compare all the files on your site with your "known good" copies (and make sure they are known good.) What particular "worm" does he think you have?

[IanS]

Or give us the web address (PM a mod if you don't want it public) and they can go through a number of pages and see if their AV program picks up something.

[DaJe]

I don't know what specific worm he think's there is. He also says it's not in any certain file that I linked him to, but thinks it resides on the server itself and infects everything. Mainly I link pictures from www.codeinsurrection.com/pics if anybody wanted to check for anything there.

[stevel]

Your friend is just making things up. Ignore him.

[DaJe]

Yeah, especially since I swithed everything over to a new server. It's just that he convinces other people there are problems too. Any way I can show him some proof of nothing being there?

[stevel]

You can't prove a negative. If he insists that something is there, tell him to "put up (his evidence) or shut up."