Description
JS/Exploit Generic is detection for suspiciously encoded JavaScript. Scripts containing certain attributes used to maliciously exploit a browser or other web content rendering mechanisms are detected under this classification name.
JS/Exploit is not a virus, but rather an exploit that takes advantage of security vulnerability in some versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Outlook and Outlook Express.
Indication of Infection
The presence of download files resulting from the script execution.
This vulnerability modifies the browsers start page, search page and also add some unauthorized links to the "Favorites" folder of Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Typically this exploit is used to execute other programs. Those programs can be whatever the author chooses to run on the vulnerable system. Therefore it is not possible to provide specific information as one attack can vary from the next.
Methods of Infection
Browsing an infected website containing this script.
This threat could be delivered via an email message, or an infectious web page.