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Name: sapi
Date: May 18, 2007 at 07:37:41 Pacific
OS: windows xp
CPU/Ram: 2.4Ghz/512mb
Product: asus
Comment:

morning,

i got this confusing problem with my computer, i got this access denied message whenever i put external storage into my pc (thumdrive,external harddrives). I know that there is some virus or trojan causing this problem, i search in the registry and try to display my hidden files, i found that there is a file called mmc32.exe causing all this rackets. So i clean up my registry and windows/system32 folder from this files. but it seems that whenever i restart my pc, this problem keep getting back again.

thank you.



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Name: XpUser
Date: May 18, 2007 at 07:51:19 Pacific
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I know that there is some virus or trojan causing ... ... access denied message.

Tell us how you came to that conclusion.

i_XpUser


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Response Number 2
Name: jboy
Date: May 18, 2007 at 15:08:00 Pacific
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aka the "everything is a virus" syndrome?

"i search in the registry and try to display my hidden files"

That seems a strange way to go about it

"found that there is a file called mmc32.exe causing all this rackets."

Ah, well... rackets - - it does seem that this is malware - - identified as Backdoor.Agent.ady (and cleaned) by Ewido Anti Spyware (now called AVG)

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.


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Response Number 3
Name: sapi
Date: May 18, 2007 at 17:49:24 Pacific
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i got to that conclusion because after i remove all the registry with the command line mmc32.exe and all the autorun.inf from my pc and external harddrive i can open my external harddrive without access denied message. but it seems that i didn't delete the main source because right after i reboot my pc the same problem happen again.


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