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new malware.j
Name: kitty Date: December 11, 2006 at 00:44:00 Pacific OS: winxp CPU/Ram: p4 2.4g 1024 Product: gateway
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Just a heads up i guess on this new malware.j trojan
I found it on my system too... i have mcafees, and i also use ccleaner, to get rid of unwanted things. as i was looking around i found a new item in the task manager listed as winlogon with my USER name as the user instead of SYSTEM like its suppose to, the system one was there also. i opened up my ccleaner and found in the tools section/startup a listing for nvchost, or something similar, i removed it and the msg that i had this trojan went away. i also decided to download avast free trial to use the preboot scan it has and it picked up 2 other trojans. hope this helps you all.... if you use the avast make sure u turn it back off once u reboot or it will conflict with your antivirus, as you cant have more than one on a system running...
Name: murr Date: December 11, 2006 at 08:45:59 Pacific
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After all that your going to continue to use 'McAfee'?.
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Response Number 2
Name: kitty Date: December 17, 2006 at 22:28:48 Pacific
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actually no because it was disabled by another program. trojan if you will that disables the protection and my system restore, i reformatted and put my newer version of nortons on there which is the program that first detected this main trojan, it wasnt the new malware.j
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