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Spyware? WinXP Shutdown End Program
Name: woodman Date: June 9, 2008 at 03:55:23 Pacific OS: Win XP Home SP3 CPU/Ram: 1.66GHz/768 RAM
Comment:
End Program dialog box appears on logoff and restart. Must manually end the program. Program name changes each time..last 5 were bcc, 95c, e8c, a60, bc8. Files not found on search of hard drive. No viruses or malware detected with scans by multiple utilities. Msconfig startup shows nothing suspicious. Any thoughts out there?
Name: guapo Date: June 9, 2008 at 16:21:42 Pacific
Reply:
Trend Micro Anti Virus uses a program that changes names like that. That's the only one I know that would be legitimate. Are you running one of their programs?
Other than that, it still could be some spyware.
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Response Number 2
Name: woodman Date: June 9, 2008 at 19:33:21 Pacific
Reply:
Interesting. I ran Trend Micro House Call 6.5 the other day but the problem was happening before that. House Call definitely copied files to my PC including an ActiveX control. Doesn't look like anything's running but then again, that's the point. I'll delete the files and see what happens. Thanks.
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Response Number 3
Name: woodman Date: June 10, 2008 at 08:33:09 Pacific
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Unfortunately didn't work. Problem still exists. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
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Response Number 4
Name: guapo Date: June 10, 2008 at 08:48:25 Pacific
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When one of those strange file names appear, search for it in explorer. If it belongs to Trend, it will have an icon of a little dog next to it and it's ok to leave it.
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Response Number 5
Name: woodman Date: June 10, 2008 at 16:18:33 Pacific
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Files don't show in Explorer, that's the problem. Can't ID what's running behind the scenes. No major ill effects other than logoff hangup. Smitfraud fix didn't take care of it either.
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Response Number 6
Name: guapo Date: June 10, 2008 at 16:47:35 Pacific
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Are you saying that you can't search for files at all (start search)? Have you set explorer to show hidden files?
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Response Number 7
Name: woodman Date: June 10, 2008 at 18:18:27 Pacific
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Can search fine. It's just that the files searched for are not located.
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Response Number 8
Name: guapo Date: June 10, 2008 at 18:29:05 Pacific
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They may not be located because they are marked 'hidden' by the system. That's why I said that you have to check show hidden files and folders in tools, folder options.
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Response Number 9
Name: woodman Date: June 10, 2008 at 19:04:22 Pacific
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Forgot to mention...yes, searched hidden files and folders.
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Response Number 10
Name: guapo Date: June 11, 2008 at 17:07:52 Pacific
Reply:
I don't know what else to tell you unless you want to try Hijack This.
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Response Number 11
Name: woodman Date: June 12, 2008 at 15:00:16 Pacific
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