Re: if you notice weird differences in your files and system folders
From: Fitz (SENDNOMAIL_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/27/05
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:20:28 GMT
Thank you for posting in this newsgroup. Since we don't have a clue what
you're talking about, would you care to enlighten us?
"Dani" <Dani@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:34164E55-0B03-4CA4-BA25-0982A5FFE7A9@microsoft.com...
> Raj, the first of a few mails you will be getting. Since you have decided
> to
> extend my service on this issue, please don't feel these are urgent. They
> will most likely become more so, as time progresses, but I have a few
> tools
> available to me to aid in keeping my system stable until we get to the
> bottom
> of this...these mails are more for MSN to be updated on situations and for
> my
> own personal knowledge. The attachment doc on here comes from a deep
> intense
> system scan of my entire system. All files in this attachment were found
> after a pretty logistic scan on my system, followed by a full update of
> nortons, a full windows update, and an internal file cleanup run on my
> hardware. All of this was done immediately following a system restore,
> and I
> pulled my ethernet before restarting my system. I do realize that most of
> these files are redundant and after the scan the folder read 0 bytes info.
> The problem on this thing is that when I ran my update for nortons, the
> last
> thing I did btw, and restarted, camfrog pro insisted on popping up and
> trying
> to load anyway. There should have been no exe file in my system registry
> at
> that time, yet the first time I ran the scan, there were only 8 files
> shown
> with 3 uninstalls and everyone of them was taken out of cache and
> supposedly
> no traces found afterward. I would love to know if one of these files
> DOES
> contain an exe file, and also determine whether it is a camfrog app in
> actuality. I realize that I could perform this myself but I am seriously
> unhappy with the idea of opening one of these folders and turning this
> thing
> loose in my system yet again. I am tired of looking at my explorer bar,
> and
> I am tired of setting system restore, which Is ALWAYS the end result of
> chasing this thing around my system. So far I have had my folders remain
> the
> way I set them and in the places that I put them for about 7 hours now,
> which
> is a darned miracle. Every time this thing gets loose, when I manage to
> make
> it back to my antivirus software, they say system status URGENT fix
> immediately, and there is always at least one system active setting turned
> off. Norton insists that it has no info on this rapidly spreading
> outbreak
> it is informing of, so maybe we can isolate this thing. At this point, I
> am
> monitoring 3 different programs tightly:
> 1) Camfrog pro website
>
> 2)Yinst toolbar helper object--reason that I seem to maintain a reasonably
> stable system as long as I leave YIM on exit.
> (which would lead me to a fourth possibility of a bad bad man in my
> contact
> list there)
>
> 3) transmac program.
>
> please get back to me with any results as soon as you can get them, to
> help
> me to narrow down the possibilities and start checking others. Norton is
> correct. This IS a rapidly spreading threat. From the first encounter in
> any profile on my pc, eta until total system failure less than 2 hours,
> and
> you can literally watch this thing race through your files in explorer,
> rewriting folder specs, changing opening programs and literally placing
> folders in different places. BTW, I have full Norton scan logs at your
> request, and I can also send a log of my system specs at restore point as
> well. PS I am ccing this post to msn groups as well, if you have any
> problems let me know and I will discontinue. Thanks, jeffosb.
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