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nisum.exe Is this norton or worm?
Name: chunko Date: December 18, 2002 at 19:56:20 Pacific OS: windows xp home CPU/Ram: Pentium2.4/256ddr333
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I have nisum.exe always running. Is this the virus or the blackbear worm? I have scanned my pc with norton2003 but it showed nothing.
That page has a free utility to completely remove bugbear, so I think you should give that a try.
It also has a scanning utility you can use.
Good luck.
Just fyi - this should really go on the security and virus forum next time:)
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Response Number 3
Name: suzi Date: December 18, 2002 at 20:08:36 Pacific
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Oops - my bad. After I read the above post I reread the page that I posted. It says that nisum.exe is a file that is affected by bugbear, not part of bugbear. BuzzStPoint is right and I was dead wrong.
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Response Number 4
Name: BuzzStPoint Date: December 18, 2002 at 20:11:46 Pacific
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it's missleading, it's not infecting your file.
The worm creates four major threads. The first one activates its payload every 30 seconds to stop the following processes if they are running:
... Nmain.exe Nisum.exe Navwnt.exe Navw32.exe ... Read on thevirus here http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbear@mm.html.
all it does is stops this service, it doesn;t infect it.
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Response Number 5
Name: suzi Date: December 18, 2002 at 20:34:49 Pacific
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Thanks for the clarification. I guess I just read it too fast. Good link on symantec.
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Response Number 6
Name: chunko Date: December 18, 2002 at 20:53:24 Pacific
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Okay, so its not a virus and yes, I do have norton2003 firewall and antivirous.. Man thats a little confusing, since nisum was a worm, also.
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