Re: Windows Medcia Player\wmplayer.exe.tmp - Win32.SillyDI.IV troj

From: fsharpe (fsharpe_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:17:04 -0800

Thanks for your reply David but do you know what type of trojan it was? and
how I might have obtained it? It has already been deleted.

"David H. Lipman" wrote:

> From: "fsharpe" <fsharpe@discussions.microsoft.com>
>
> | Sorry - I thought my whole thread name would appear. It read: Windows Media
> | Player\wmplayer.exe.tmp - Win32.SillyDI.IV trojan.....My virus scan found
> | this and deleted it. I am very ignorant to computers and wanted to know what
> | was it's goal (what it would do) and how it was obtained? Thanks.
> |
> | "fsharpe" wrote:
> |
> >> My virus scan found this and deleted it. I am very ignorant to computers and
> >> wanted to know what was it's goal (what it would do) and how it was obtained?
>
>
> Yes, if it is a Trojan then the file is the infector and it can't be "cleaned" like a true
> virus and the file should be deleted !
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>
>

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