Unknown registration request - virus?

From: sgopus (fredd_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/17/03

  • Next message: Brian Thomas: "Unauthorized software install and IE customization"
    Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:13:22 -0700
    
    

    Unless it was something you installed and told the
    registration process to do this later. and now is later??

    Did you get the name of the program?

    if not, look in event log, or look in the firewall
    permissions log and see what's denied, look for the date
    it was denied.

    >-----Original Message-----
    >
    >>Asking to register a program? Sounds like it's already
    >>installed.
    >>Have you checked what's loading on startup??
    >>What operating system are you using?
    >>What's the firewall ?
    >
    >Isn't it unusual for a program to prompt for registration
    >out-of-the-blue without even being run? I mean that's
    >what made me suspicious in the first place, otherwise I'd
    >just have thought it was something that had come pre-
    >installed and I'd never got round to using. I've checked
    >what's loading on startup, and there's nothing 'obvious'.
    >I'm running Windows XP, and using Norton.
    >.
    >


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