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alrqos.exe good or evil?
Name: B-Funk Date: July 10, 2004 at 12:50:24 Pacific OS: Win Xp Pro CPU/Ram: P4 3.0 / 1 gig
Comment:
I have this file that I suspect may be malware: C:\WINDOWS\System32\alrqos.exe spybot or bps does not pick it up. Does anyone know what this file is? Thx in advance.
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: July 11, 2004 at 01:15:06 Pacific
Reply:
Abnormal,
Good one.
It found NetSky and it found eicar.com inside a zip.
Cool.
M2
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Response Number 3
Name: B-Funk Date: July 12, 2004 at 13:51:15 Pacific
Reply:
I needed to end the procees to scan the file, and this is what I found: alrqos.exe - packed with UPX alrqos.exe - infected by TrojanDownloader.Win32.Agent.ae Nothing picked it up, I wonder why. Thanks =)
-B
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Response Number 4
Name: B-Funk Date: July 12, 2004 at 13:53:37 Pacific
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Norton Av 2004 didn't pick it up either. All my definitions are up to date -B
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Response Number 5
Name: Martin Crandall Date: July 12, 2004 at 16:18:51 Pacific
Reply:
Norton often misses the minor trojan's, thats why we love our SpyBot and AdAware.
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