~.exe virus? - 3rd Jan 2009 6:44pm
I have a file ~.exe in c:windows\system32 directory/folder - does anybody know anything about his, it runs at boot somehow and tries to access the internet occasionally.
I strongly suspect this is a trojan keylogger (like somebody else on the net), but there is no mention by any of the virus people and only a couple of queries by punters.
It is not helped that google can't search for the tilde character ~
I can stop the process easy enough and it is well and truly blocked from talking to the internet.
For the moment I have renamed the file to stop it being run.
It is 8238 bytes long (9K), the only times it could have come onto my computer is either through an "Adobe Reader" update or a "Mozilla Thunderbird" update (which I might have OK'd without looking too closely), nothing else was given permission to run at about the time the file was created.
The only other funny that has happened recently was Windows Installer popping up sometimes looking for a CD that isn't there and asking me to insert a vdrive CD (I do have vdrive installed, but haven't used it for ages), this happens when I try to run programs that I use all the time from the hard drive, but happens only occasionally.
Any help appreciated.
I strongly suspect this is a trojan keylogger (like somebody else on the net), but there is no mention by any of the virus people and only a couple of queries by punters.
It is not helped that google can't search for the tilde character ~
I can stop the process easy enough and it is well and truly blocked from talking to the internet.
For the moment I have renamed the file to stop it being run.
It is 8238 bytes long (9K), the only times it could have come onto my computer is either through an "Adobe Reader" update or a "Mozilla Thunderbird" update (which I might have OK'd without looking too closely), nothing else was given permission to run at about the time the file was created.
The only other funny that has happened recently was Windows Installer popping up sometimes looking for a CD that isn't there and asking me to insert a vdrive CD (I do have vdrive installed, but haven't used it for ages), this happens when I try to run programs that I use all the time from the hard drive, but happens only occasionally.
Any help appreciated.