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Possible Virus/Spyware
Name: stgraydon Date: July 8, 2009 at 19:22:48 Pacific OS: Windows XP Subcategory: Viruses
Comment:
I keep getting a pop-up in Internet Explorer that brings up a porn site "getiton.com". We have anti-virus and nothing came up. I ran Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D, they did not fix it. I ran Process Explorer and found out that it is being brought up by the 'svchost.exe' service. I'm not sure what to do next, though. The 'svchost.exe' is an essential service on Windows XP. Any suggestions?
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