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Exploit:Win32/Exrec.gen
Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Aliases: Exploit-MSExcel.p (McAfee) Trojan.Mdropper (Symantec) MS08-014 (other) CVE-2008-0081 (other)
Summary
Exploit:Win32/Exrec.gen is a generic detection of malicious code that attempts to exploit a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel.
Manual removal is not recommended for this threat. Use Microsoft Security Essentials or another up-to-date scanning and removal tool to detect and remove this threat and other unwanted software from your computer. For more information on Microsoft security products, see http://www.microsoft.com/protect/products/computer/default.mspx.
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