Re: two EXPLORER.EXEs. Virus ?

From: Gary K (dabigfinndog@icqmail.com)
Date: 03/11/03 

From: "Gary K" <dabigfinndog@icqmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:19:02 -0800

No. I learned the hard way too. I just learned very early how easy it was
to get hacked. Denial is really strong. I have several friends that I
can't convince to take security seriously no matter how much evidence I show
them. I don't consider them to be idiots, just living in denial. Sooner or
later they are going to get hacked. I may too, but I make it as hard as
possible with the skills I do have. I keep everything patched, avoid the
places where hackers are known to troll, and keep virus definitions up to
date on a frequent schedule.

My apologies-- for whatever they're worth--I re-read my post and can see why
I offended you. You know what they say--the mouth runs fastest when the
brains in neutral.

Gary K.
"B.Y." <ecxzDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:#YAsqup5CHA.2052@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> You think you're so much better than the non-exclusive club idiots, don't
> you ?
>
>
> "Gary K" <dabigfinndog@icqmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uFJkkkl5CHA.2392@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Bruce,
> >
> > I sure would like to know the answer to that question too. B.Y. doesn't
> > belong to a very exclusive club. The club he belongs to contains a lot
> of
> > business owners, system administrators, etc... that all leave their
> systems
> > unprotected no matter what they hear, and then want someone else to
> provide
> > the expertise when the inevitable happens, and want to complain about
it.
> > Not protecting your computer is like going on vacation for a couple of
> > months and leaving your doors and windows wide open with a sign on the
> > outside saying, "Hey, come rip me off. There's nobody home here."
> >
> > I'd bet pretty good money that the advice he's gotten here about
firewalls
> > and anti-virus protection he's heard many times before and just blown it
> > off. De Nile is not just a river in North Africa.
> >
> >
> > "Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@nospam.cableone.net> wrote in message
> > news:v6mmohh84s35db@corp.supernews.com...
> > > Greetings --
> > >
> > > Why post the question here and then wait for an answer, if you
> > > suspect a virus? Wouldn't it be a lot faster to simply use you
> > > antiviral application, with freshly updated virus definition files, of
> > > course, to scan the hard drive?
> > >
> > > Bruce Chambers
> > > Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
> > > http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> > > ----
> > > You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
> > > having both at once. -- RAH
> > >
> > >
> > > "B.Y." <ecxzDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > > news:uf20VEg5CHA.1576@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm running Windows 2000 SP3, and my Windows root directory is
> > > > "C:\W2K". By
> > > > chance I noticed in task manager that there're 2 explorer.exe's
> > > > running,
> > > > looking into it further, I found out that there're 2 files named
> > > > explorer.exe in my windows folder.
> > > >
> > > > The first file is "c:\w2k\explorer.exe", it's 242960 bytes long and
> > > > it looks
> > > > like it's the shell explorer.exe.
> > > >
> > > > The second file is "c:\w2k\system32\explorer.exe", but I don't know
> > > > what it
> > > > is. It's 245,760 bytes long, has no version info, and has no
> > > > resource in it
> > > > (opening it as resource, VC returned error "cannot enumerate
> > > > resources in
> > > > the executable"). Furthermore, in
> > > > HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, there's an entry
> > > > to it
> > > > so it's run at system start. Renaming this file and deleting the
> > > > registry
> > > > entry don't seem to affect the system at all.
> > > >
> > > > So my question is, is this explorer.exe part of OS or some kind of
> > > > virus ?
> > > >
> > > > If anyone wants to take a look at this file, please email me at
> > > > yahoo.com,
> > > > email name is ecxz.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, By
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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