Re: Q: Tracking and detecting a possible virus

chris_at_nospam.com
Date: 07/04/04 

Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 07:06:07 GMT

On 30 Jun 2004 14:43:19 -0700, soul8o8@hotmail.com (Soul8o8) wrote:

>yo!
>
>i have a problem - i think i've got a new virus cause i can't find it
>with any scanner and I have clear symptoms (the start page of
>iexplorer is set to a certain file and i can't change it back.)
>
>Now i know that this virus creates a MHT-file in my windows folder and
>i know the name of the file it creates. my question is: is there any
>way of tracking what application or process created that file? if i
>knew the program that created the file i would also know the host of
>the virus yes? how do i do that?
>
>cause i can't submit any file to any antivirus co. if i don't have an
>infected file. any help in this matter would be very nice! :)
>
>
>(the file that is created is c:\windows\system32\iesp.mht maybe anyone
>has got it as well? and i think that this is clearly a new version of
>the StartPage-virus as listed by pandasoftware..)

It's known spyware. Download spybot or adaware to remove it. Then
switch to a non-MS browser such as FireFox. There are just too many
fundamental security design flaws in IE to consider it safe.

-Chris

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