Thought this forum could need another entry and since I've placed my gripes with Sophos website search in general and the link from SEC in particular here - another one.
Computer Details under Items detected lists Adware or PUA with name Generic Proxy-OSS Application, subtype Adware and provides this link: Generic Proxy-OSS Application. What you get is a list of (currently 9) Troj/Daemoni analyses where every single one sounds rather scary as the trojan creates and runs a rogue svchost.exe. Well, can't be, I thought so I removed Generic and Application and searched for Proxy-OSS only, this time getting the expected analysis for Proxy OSS.
This shows that sometimes it's better to get no hit at all. Obviously when you have only one word and it contains a special character like "-" it causes the search to also look for the substrings, i.e. an expression with a blank instead (note that the entry says "Proxy OSS"). So - if you get disappointing results try to outsmart it.
Christian
BTW: the spellchecker suggests I better replace svchost.exe - for this purpose it offers among others spirochetes, coversheet, coffeehouse, exosphere and last but not least excessiveness ... figures :smileywink:
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