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Name: NeedSomeHelp2009
Date: July 5, 2009 at 00:22:07 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
Subcategory: Spyware
Comment:

Alright guys tell me whats wrong and how to fix it. A few days ago I

picked up some kind of Virus or Malware or Spyware. Suddenly my

internet explorer would load up and start going to various websites all

by itself. I also noticed that a process called "16 Film Deaf.exe"

would run and use 100% of the cpu. All of this happened at about the

time that I installed a program called "GalaPlayer-1.4.0.0-setup.exe".

I am not blaming galaplayer but the problems started thereafter. I

could have picked it up on some website as well. Who knows.

What I've done so far is uninstall IE version 7 because I don't use it

anyway. I use Firefox all the time. So now I don't get the popups from

IE but "16 Film Deaf.exe" still starts up every now and then and runs

at 100% cpu every time. I've run a full system scan with Computer

Associates antivirus, SpyBot Search and Destroy, and Windows Defender.

I discovered that I had many variants of the Win32 virus and that was

fixed but nothing else was ever found. I reran CA antivirus, Spybot,

and Windows Defender but they all say nothing is wrong but something is

obviously wrong because I still get "16 Film Deaf.exe" every now and

then. It's a hassle because I have to go into task manager every time

to stop it and it just keeps coming back. How can I back trace that

stupid executable to find out what is creating it so I can fix the

problem. Task Manager doesn't even tell me where the file is or what

created it. I did a search for it but all I ever find is a prefetch

file called "16 FILM DEAF.EXE-09560D49.pf".

Finally, I have another question. Is it typical for the number of

processes to increase by about 13 after installing an antivirus

program. I ask because my task manager would always show approximately

20 processes but after installing CA antivirus I now have about 32

processes every time. Hard to believe but they all seem legitimate.

Thanks guys for any help you can provide. It would be very welcomed.



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Name: RobJohnB95
Date: July 5, 2009 at 02:34:34 Pacific
Reply:

download ccleaner.exe and clean the regestry of infected files such as that 16deaf.exe thing and then restart the comp and it should turn out okay


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