Re: What is the skq.exe process?? virus ?? hacker??

From: bramblewood (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:59:42 -0800

Dave - your reply is a bit harsh - it is clear that this
behaviour is not standard practice - it is obviously some
form of new virus.

>-----Original Message-----
>if you don't know what it is how do you know how to
uninstall it? how do
>you know that deleting it won't delete something
important? do you have
>virus scanner? firewall? spyware and adware scanners??
all up to date? with
>modern worms and viruses you can't go by the filename,
they often randomly
>create names or use ones that look like real processes
but are one letter
>off. make sure all your protection is up to date, and
don't be surprised if
>it comes back with a different name or as a service that
you can't stop.
>
>"toolman99" <toolman99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message
>news:868AE528-1942-48E2-A621-EE09BFBC49BD@microsoft.com...
>> Has anyone else seen this process - the skq.exe was
running in background
>and
>> chewed up about 70gb of my harddrive space in one week -
 it is located in
>a
>> hidden folder in the system32 directory and was
creating monster files
>with
>> names like 94.74603.sys- I deleted all the files and
the program from the
>skq
>> directroy but was wondering if anyone knows what this
is - thanks worried
>> about hacker- -i am running xp homne on a dell desktop
>
>
>.
>

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