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weird avserve.exe file !!!
Name: az0000000 Date: May 1, 2004 at 05:01:40 Pacific OS: Windows XP Professional CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon/600 MHZ
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a weird file was somehow created in windows folder and at startup it starts and takes 60% of my RAM i checked creation day and it looked like it was created at the same hour I noticed the problem, i guess through some internet site navigation first, i stopped that service manually by task manager, than i deleted it from windows folder, and now i am up to clean up the registry from that file completely, but i am not sure if it is a needed file and what is it. did it happen to any of you ever? did anyone hear of such file? i browsed the internet and did not find even such file name. i want to delete any reference to that file in the registry/run section, but not sure is is good to do that can anyone tell me? tanx a lot in advance!
Name: Marty525 Date: May 1, 2004 at 05:37:38 Pacific
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If you do a system restore to a time before the file was created, then it will be removed from the registry.
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Response Number 2
Name: az0000000 Date: May 1, 2004 at 05:42:19 Pacific
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actually i don't really love messing up with system restore option so i switched it off long ago...
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Response Number 3
Name: az0000000 Date: May 1, 2004 at 05:43:10 Pacific
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Weird!!! I decided to restart computer without cleaning the registry from this strange file and again!!! Even I’ve deleted the file and cleaned the recycle bin it was created again in C:\WINDOWS folder!!! And it stilled 60-70% of my RAM again!!! Now I delete it again, and will definitely clean the registry/run section from it!!! May be that will help…
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Response Number 4
Name: mada_oz Date: May 1, 2004 at 05:48:25 Pacific
as instructions are provided by strongest antivirus soft providers
good luck!
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Response Number 8
Name: pduggan Date: May 3, 2004 at 11:04:47 Pacific
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A friend asked for my help when her PC encountered these symptoms.
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Response Number 9
Name: Spadger34 Date: May 10, 2004 at 12:03:37 Pacific
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If you have this in your task manager then you have the SASSER VIRUS! this file is created to infect other machines and scans ip's thats why its using so much ram.
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