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Published Oct 25, 2007 | Updated Sep 15, 2017

Exploit:HTML/AdoStream

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Aliases: VBS/Psyme (McAfee) JS/Psyme.AA (Norman) Troj/Psyme-DL (Sophos) Trojan.Downloader (Symantec) JS_PSYME.RQ (Trend Micro) JS.Psyme.EB (VirusBuster)

Summary

Exploit:HTML/AdoStream is a generic detection for malicious JavaScript or VBScripts embedded inside HTML pages. These scripts takes advantage of the ADODB.Stream functionality in ActiveX, combined with known security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer, in order to download and install other malwares onto a computer.

Scan with antivirus software

Exploit:HTML/AdoStream may download additional malicious software to the computer. To recover from this threat or additional malicious software, you must run a full-system scan with an up-to-date antivirus product. Several companies provide antivirus software for this purpose. For more information, see http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/downloads/default.mspx.
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