pollgs.exe and Hou8RUY5R , what is?
From: Nehmo Sergheyev (nehmo54_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/19/04
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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:29:11 GMT
Win XP Home SP2, Currently using XP firewall ICF, NAV
I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but I got invaded by a bunch of adware
(much of it ironically advertised security apps) last night. NAV couldn't
delete several items, so I had to manually delete them. Sometimes I had to
stop the running process first, and sometimes I renamed the file, stopped
the process, and then deleted. I also ran Ad-aware SE. Eventually, I got a
clean bill of health from NAV and Ad-Aware SE.
Some of the stuff showed up on the msconfig startup tab. One Item was
pollgs.exe
which I must have already deleted because I can't find it now. This is the
key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Name: Hou8RUY5R
Data: pollgs.exe
I couldn't find any info on this malware. Does anybody know what it is?
(Today, I did several things to harden the system.)
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