Re: "irrrar.exe"?

From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/03/05 

Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 20:40:55 -0500

Hi,

See: http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Trojan 

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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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"MG." <moreyag@nospam.frontiernet.net> wrote in message 
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> Hello to all.  I have been laboring for days to get my 18 yr old 
> daughter's PC free from the boatload of spyware, crapware and scumware she 
> managed to accumulate. I think I'm ALMOST home free, but something keeps 
> adding the program "irrrar.exe" to the group of startup processes.  I ran 
> a multitude of Adware removal programs, and then check the startup tab in 
> msconfig, and every so often there sits "irrrar.exe" with a path to 
> c:\windows\system32\irrrar.exe
> When I look in the directory, it is not there. Yet CounterSpy shows it as 
> a running process and terminates it. To answer the obvious, yes I have the 
> "show all files button" ticked and all others relating to hidden and 
> system files.
> Does anyone know anything about this program? I searched Google and yahoo 
> and came up empty.
> Thanks in advance to any and all for the help and best regards,
> morey G
>