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ptsnoop.exe
Name: Dan Scott Date: May 13, 2000 at 21:21:43 Pacific
Comment:
When I updated my Norton antivirus on 5-13, it detected a trojan horse on a file called ptsnoop.exe and quarantined it. Norton could not successfully "cure" this executable of its virus, so I deleted it. When I booted, I received an error message that it could not find the ptsnoop.exe file. I tried reloading the file form my Windows 98 CD, but apparently could not find where to put it, because I got a "could not fine ptsnoop.exe or one of its components message." Finally, I commented out the load=ptsnoop.exe out of my win.ini file, and everything seems to be okay. However, I'd like to reload ptnsoop.exe where it really belongs. Does anyone know where I should put it?
PTSNOOP is a token program that waits for some program to request the COM port to be opened. Then it makes sure that the drivers get loaded. The total memory impact is less than one meg of RAM, for everything that the HSP software does.
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Response Number 3
Name: Carmen Date: July 27, 2000 at 00:09:15 Pacific
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I NEED some help, please! I got the prettypark virus and went and purchased Norton!!! It has quaratined my ptsnoop.exe and i CAN NOT get into my system. Please, please, if you cold help me i would really appreciate it. What do I do? Thanks
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Response Number 4
Name: Nonie Date: August 16, 2000 at 19:55:19 Pacific
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is the ptsnoop a hazard to my pc?
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Response Number 5
Name: antonio becerra Date: December 6, 2000 at 13:42:38 Pacific
Summary: ok..i was helping my g.f clean out her computer and we came across this ptsnoop program running.So i looked it up and the 1st several messages i seen.."its a virus trojan" etc..so i deleted it as seve...
Summary: I found this, er I mean I did some investigating: http://www.driver-forum.com/modem/1360.html "ptsnoop.exe is a trojan that is transferred by openning an up an email. ptsnoop is hidden and will automa...
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