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msn32vv.exe - what?
Name: tullmejs Date: June 15, 2005 at 15:32:47 Pacific OS: win xp home sp2 CPU/Ram: amd 2400 1gb
Comment:
Immediately after logging into Windows I get a warning box: do I want to run "msn32vv.exe", located in /system?
I choose not to. Googling the web for that file revealed absolutely nothing, peculiar. Browsing my systems folder, it was not there... (view system- and hidden files enabled).
It appeared after I ran a possibly infected .scr file (that did not alarm my up to date Avast anti viral).
Have you heard of this particular beast? Or might it be benign? Many thanks :-)
Name: tullmejs Date: June 15, 2005 at 16:08:40 Pacific
Reply:
It doesn't, really, I think. Neither the process name (I found it in registry, it's "startkey") nor file name is in their list. And the forum seems pretty sleepy.
Thanks anyway!
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Response Number 3
Name: Martin Crandall Date: June 16, 2005 at 06:54:12 Pacific
Reply:
You ran an .scr file?!?
NOT a good idea!
If you still have the SCR, email it to me, or a link to the website you got it from. I should be able to tell you what was in it.
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Response Number 4
Name: tullmejs Date: June 17, 2005 at 05:32:15 Pacific
Reply:
I did, silly me :-) it was from a seemingly innocent enough source. Now I know better. I'll mail it to you, thanks!!
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