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Posted by NewScience on September 20, 2006, 6:35 pm
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> Hello everyone, Yes the old nag has at last gone to the knacker's yard.
> No thanks to Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky, Sysclean, Spybot, A-squared
> and other scanners with which my PC has been excoriated for weeks, in
> Safe Mode and Normal, and with System Restore held in abeyance.
>
> In fact the Trojan (W32.Qhosts.df) was found using a tiny little
> utility, (donation ware from Mike Lin ( www.mlin.net ), and called
> StartUp Control Panel. This tool displays what starts up with Windows
> and can stop it doing so. Using it I saw the file C:\WINDOWS\System32\
> dmyic.exe not having any obvious connection to my usual software so
> decided to block its startup. This immediately prevented the
> reinstallation of a Registry Value at each bootup. System Restore was
> not the culprit, but this little file.
>
> Can anyone tell me, please, whether this System32\dmyic.exe file is a
> genuine Windows file with a job to do or simply a stable for the Horse?
> I would like to delete it if possible: the ordure remains offensive.
> Advice please. Many thanks.
> Robert.
>
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