It appears that the thread in the Windows ME forum about the AORNUM.exe has been deleted. Any particular reason?

Aornum.exe is a trojen virus, so it may have been deleted because it wasn't posted in the virus/security forum.

Hello All, I was just wondering why it was deleted also. Aornum is a trojan, created by IWON and several other large companies to track and monitor your computer thru a common used port# 80. Iwon posted information on there site for removal instruction. But be warned all! This does not remove the program it only hides the program. Aornum and Ornum subfolders can be upgrade switched on, stealth mode and changed by iwon. I removed the Aornum by the instruction given to me by iwon. I went to the prize machine and my zone-alarm program went haywire. I stopped all internet traffic investigated and found that aornum tried to access the web(4x)at the same time I was on the iwon prize machine using my windows me machine. Ad-aware does not remove this nor hacking the registry. I am sure that as this is being posted people are taking the code apart and determining how to use those computers who are affected by aornum. I was a user of IWON and had them as my start page. I have since boycotted IWON and the site is totally blocked on all my home and work computers.

Ad-Aware latest update August 16 2002 removes it.

I downloaded the latest version of ad-aware 8-16-2002 and it didn't remove aornum

Hello All, Aornum is a trojan, created by IWON and several other large companies to track and monitor your computer thru a common used port# 80. Iwon posted information on there site for removal instruction. But be warned all! This does not remove the program it only hides the program. Aornum and Ornum subfolders can be upgrade switched on, stealth mode and changed by iwon. I removed the Aornum by the instruction given to me by iwon then I went to the prize machine and my zone-alarm program went haywire. I stopped all internet traffic investigated and found that aornum tried to access the web(4x)at the same time I was on the iwon prize machine using my windows me machine. Ad-aware does not remove this nor hacking the registry. I am sure that as this is being posted people are taking the code apart and determining how to use those computers who are affected by aornum. I was a user of IWON and had them as my start page. I have since boycotted IWON and the site is totally blocked on all my home and work computers.

Okay, thought this might be helpful. I have also been having this issue only running windows '98 SE. Before I found your lovely responses I uninstalled the prize machine. I have since found that yes AORNUM.exe does change. On my system it changed to TENSOFT.exe. The TENSOFT folder entry mimics that of ORNUM and now under the SearchAssistant folder under IWON it lists TENSOFT.exe not AORNUM.exe. I have have a run and a run- entry in my registry and both have two entries one for AORNUM and one for TENSOFT. Both entries mimic each other. I don't know if this was wise or not but I also notified Symantec so maybe they can investigate it and come up with a solution more easily obtained for the non-techie.