Re: Virus or not??

Jane: You are right on it! That was the exact warning I received and I
didn't actually run it. I don't exactly know where it came from. I think I
was doing something that required me to turn off my pop up blocker and all of
a sudden this thing came up. I was suspicious of it, because of the fact
that it just came up on it's own, so I did not click on the "Remove" button.
Instead I got rid of that site and went to my Windows Live One Care and ran a
scan - Nothing showed up, so I manually went into explorer and searched for
those file names and could not find them. I am fairly computer savy, but I
am way short of being a true geek so I (have to) trust Microsoft as much, and
a little more, than all those other products and websites. I know that just
because a website may offer free scans etc. don't mean they are legitimate
and they may even be dangerous so I am cautious about using them, but I have
used some that were recommended by Kim Komando etc and have come up with some
suspicious files that Windows Live One Care didn't alert on. Where does the
average computer user, like me, go to, to get the real scoop on these
issues??? I don't even know that these other posters know any more than I
do, or may not be leading me astray.

"Jane C" wrote:

Which virus scanner did you use that gave you these 'infection' names?

ContraVirus:
http://helicine.net/tech-bits/shady-software/

You have a malware infestation.


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"Magsowner" <Magsowner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Why can't I find these files on my computer?

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

Windows Live One Care is on the bottom of the list as far as finding
virus\malware\trojan. What you are reporting as found by other scans
testifies to that. It will be prudent for you to run some other on line
scans and removing those that were found as you have posted

Might want to read the following to get a better hold on this.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware


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"Magsowner" <Magsowner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am running Windows Live One Care, which I think is a great program,
but on
occasion I have run some other virus or spyware scan that reports I
have
dangerous files on my computer. I have been unable to find these files
on my
system. Since Windows Live One Care is not reporting these, I am
wondering
if they are really there and just what are these things:

Backdoor: Win32/NTRoot
Backdoor: Win32/SIVUXA
Trojan: Caiijing


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