Re: cehjdg.exe is driving my mouse mad

From: davetest (davexnetzerotwo_at_hooya!.com)
Date: 11/05/03 

Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:38:37 GMT

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 08:26:30 -0800, "steve trevanion"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Just posting this in the hope that someone else might
>have had the same problem. I think that my computer is
>pretty secure, as windows goes, but when I switched it on
>today (XP home) my firewall told me that a new program,
>(c:\windows\cehjdg.exe) was trying to access the
>internet. Mmmmm.... OK I don't know what this is or where
>on earth it has come from (PC was fine yesterday) so
>say "no". Computer hangs for 2-3 minutes, then seems OK,
>except that the single or double mouse click to open
>applications doesn't work - rather it open properties. So
>to open applications I have to right click and then
>select open. And of course the submit button on web forms
>don't work either. Grr...
>
>To get around this I have:
>1) rebooted, no joy
>2) ran ad-aware (upto date ver 6), no joy
>3) done antivirus scan (upto date Norton AV), no joy
>4) ran norton windows doctor, no joy
>5) searched google and microsoft web site
>for "cehjdg.exe.", nothing found
>5) tried to delete the file - already in use.
>6) went to safe mode and deleted file OK. Computer now
>seems to be working OK
>
>Strange, but although the file was marked as being
>created today, through explorer it has a timestamp of
>22/6/02, 08:17.
>
>Anyone come across this problem? My computer is working
>fine at present which is the main thing of course, but
>I'd really like to know what is going on.
>
>Steve
Seems like you may have cured it, but you should look in msconfig
and use the registry editor to see if you can find a reference
To it. Is it possible you got infected thru an email?
Here's a good inline scan:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/
turn on all the options, including heuristic.
Dave

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