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Name: Suzette
Date: August 1, 2006 at 21:26:20 Pacific
Subject: www.pokercs.com icon on desktop
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: Pentium 4 3.06GHz/ 512MB
Comment:

Today an icon for one of those poker craps appeared on my desktop. I searched through and found other messages talking about the same thing and tried their solutions. Doesn't seem to work though.
Ad-aware is up-to-date and runs...finds nothing. Norton2006 is also up-to-date and finds nothing either. Downloaded Windows Defender Beta and that doesnt' find anything.

I'm not sure where this came from, but I want it off my computer. The icons path is to a URL (http://www.pokercs.com/_aa38efcdafacba24b25408a0e17f8613/1), not to any file or exe on my computer. There's nothing in Add/Remove either. And my System Restore doesn't want to restore (but I had that problem before this icon appeared). I don't play poker, never downloaded any of that parypoker junk.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.


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Response Number 1
Name: jabuck
Date: August 3, 2006 at 03:49:26 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Please post a Hijack This log so that the files associated with the virus/spyware/hijacker can be identified.

Please download HJTsetup.exe from this link http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/files/HJTsetup.exe to your desktop.
Doubleclick on the HJTsetup.exe icon on your desktop.
By default it will install to C:\Program Files\Hijack This.
Continue to click "next" in the setup dialogue boxes until you get to the "Select Addition Tasks" dialogue.
Put a check by "Create a desktop icon" then click "Next" again.
Continue to follow the rest of the prompts from there.
At the final dialogue box click "Finish" and it will launch Hijack This.
Click on the "Do a system scan and save a logfile" button. It will scan and the log should open in notepad.
Click on "Edit > Select All" then click on "Edit > Copy" to copy the entire contents of the log and post it in this thread.

Do not fix anything yet unless you know what you are doing. This is a powerful tool that can crash the computer if used improperly.


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Response Number 2
Name: jeremyofmany
Date: August 6, 2006 at 07:12:30 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Delete the icon, do a search for "poker" on your entire HD. Uninstall Norton AV, install NOD32 or Kaspersky (www.av-comparatives.org for info on how good they are)
Next time your system is reformatted, reinstalled and configured properly without issues, please image your drive with Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost and keep a backup on a seperate drive, partition or storage media. Also, install DeepFreeze. See my thread called "To All With Malware".


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Response Number 3
Name: Suzette
Date: August 6, 2006 at 19:13:41 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Thanks for the help.
I did do a search on my computer for "poker" and only the icon came up.

Since Norton wasn't detecting this annoyance (although it should've) I went to the Mcafee site and did their free scan. THERE it turned up. It was linked to some zip file under a different name so that's why nothing would show up in the poker searches. I was able to get rid of it finally.

Scanned my computer again and it came up clean...no more poker crap popping up at start up.


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