Re: Help what is Kern32-Torjan?

From: Bill Sanderson (Bill_Sanderson_at_msn.com.plugh.org)
Date: 11/19/03 

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:12:30 -0500

Don't panic yet.

Are you sure you don't mean SVCHOST?

There are situations in which symptoms related to this filename can be
indicative of a virus infection, but it is also perfectly normal to have at
least as many as 6 instances of this running at once on any XP machine.

You've invested in good antivirus tools and firewall, and are keeping them
up to date--I'd trust those tools.

If you want some reassurance, pick a competing company--say Trend Micro or
Panda, and run their online scan--just to see if they spot something your
Norton tools haven't:

trend: http://housecall.antivirus.com

Panda:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:003b01c3ae4e$6b741e40$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> I am using windows XP Home Edition. My Norton is always
> up to date and so is ZonePro. Norton detected and deleted
> 3 Trojan's from my computer in the last few days. Now I
> have noticed on Zone that I keep getting a Kern32 program
> on the list everyday and now I am up to 6. Searched
> around on the web and it looks like it is a Trojan. It
> has located itself in my C:\Windows\System32 Did full
> system scan and it found nothing What do I do know?

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