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A virus, or not? Walter R. 06-15-2005
`--> Re: A virus, or not? Srikrishna Koma...06-16-2005
Posted by Walter R. on June 15, 2005, 9:02 pm
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I routinely ran spybot and ad-aware, in addition to my AVG virus checker and
the on-line virus check with Trend Micro and RAV.

None of them detected any malware.

Then I installed the MS Antispyware program. It immediately found a Trojan:
iteye, located in c:/windows\system32\notpad.exe . It is shown as a high
threat level.

Why do all these other programs not detect something as obvious as
notpad.exe??

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Walter
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Posted by siljaline on June 15, 2005, 10:36 pm
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"Walter R." wrote:
>I routinely ran spybot and ad-aware, in addition to my AVG virus checker and
the
>on-line virus check with Trend Micro and RAV.
>
> None of them detected any malware.
>
> Then I installed the MS Antispyware program. It immediately found a Trojan:
iteye,
> located in c:/windows\system32\notpad.exe . It is shown as a high threat level.
>
> Why do all these other programs not detect something as obvious as notpad.exe??

Virus, trojan, worm, malware - yes!

Notice the spelling of "notpad" - *not* a valid Windows file.
"notepad.exe" under Windows XP, is located in the [C:\WINDOWS] directory.
Run MS anti-spyware again and follow the prompted actions to take with this file.

Silj

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Posted by Srikrishna Komatineni on June 16, 2005, 6:11 am
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If its a real virus I am sure the rest of the programs also would have
alerted as well..Most likely i suspect the situation where you're infected
with this worm/virus/Trojan recently or just before downloading MS Anti
Spyware...
----------------------------
Srikrishna Komatineni

>I routinely ran spybot and ad-aware, in addition to my AVG virus checker
>and the on-line virus check with Trend Micro and RAV.
>
> None of them detected any malware.
>
> Then I installed the MS Antispyware program. It immediately found a
> Trojan: iteye, located in c:/windows\system32\notpad.exe . It is shown as
> a high threat level.
>
> Why do all these other programs not detect something as obvious as
> notpad.exe??
>
> --
> Walter
> www.rationality.net
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>



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