Re: "mikejones.exe" - is it a virus?

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Coal Miner wrote:
> Friend of mine, running WinXP, has lots of trouble with unsavoury pop-ups
> continually appearing while he's on the web. On running msconfig, startup
> tab, shows that a prog called 'mikejones.exe' is loading at startup. He
> doesn't know what this is, and I've never heard of it, can't find any info
> on it.
> Is this a virus/trojan/causing popups? can it be safely deleted?

Sounds rather suspect. Email it to scan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx with: SCAN
in the subject line and see what you get back.

You could also upload it to http://sandbox.norman.no/live_4.html to get an
idea of what it does/has done.


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