Guys, forgive me if I'm jumping the gun here, but I downloaded Nero 7 trial yesterday and am getting reports by Avira that it contains "WORM/IM.Licat.J". It was originally in the Program Files folder for Nero. I did a Google search as Avira had no info, and it seems it is a variant of a spambot virus perhaps? I have removed Nero and am now re-scanning and finding more instances in the temp files. Hopefully Avira can delete them from Quarantine. I'm not trying to start a big thing against Nero, it may not be anything and I'm overreacting, but per Google it does seem like there is a slight chance it was accidently put into the trial of Nero. I'll post back after I see if I can clean it all up. If anyone already knows of this issue, is there anything besides a virus scan/clean that I should do?

Well, I'm back, after a couple of anti-spyware scans, another virus scan and a round of registry cleaning, it looks like I got it out. Strangely, before I had knew the virus was there and cleaned it, I had been having trouble deleting an ISO file from a Linux distro that I thought went wrong. I couldn't delete that stupid thing even with a cmd prompt in safe Mode, and, though difficult to believe, I think it messed up/deleted my external DVD burner driver. I say that because today after uninstalling Nero, Windows "found" the drive again and reinstalled the driver. Now I had NO issue just a day before with the drive that I could detect. I can't say 100% I know that whatever that virus was deleted the driver, but something weird sure happened and the timing is quite interesting.

There's always the possibility (probability?) of a false positive - happens all the time At this point it's still unclear if this is a false positive or real infection. I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter

Yeah, I really have no idea, but my system was sure acting weird before I cleaned out Nero, you know, the ISO file and such. I posted this on the PCLOS distro site as I'm currently looking into trying them out, and am pretty much being called idiot, lol. What I can't figure out is when I scanned it prior to installing, no warning came up. I got the file directly from Nero.

Nero have this on there website. http://www.nero.com/nero7/eng/virus...

Sure - false positives are nothing new. While many things are possible, it'd be a pretty unlikely occurrence, given the file source Coincidence manages to convince folks of unlikely things too (one fellow here swore Panda's online scan infected his machine, heh) I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.