Re: Virus that corrupts process names

Manuel,

Afer you reboot, are the process names still corrupt? If you boot in Safe
Mode are they corrupt?

Nick Skrepetos
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<buenfil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1133756345.726102.273800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I use Windows XP Professional and IE. After visiting a web site, a pop
> up window appearead asking to install some .exe. I did not click
> anything, but after a few seconds the pop up disappeared and apparently
> the program got installed. From then on the internet connection was
> busy at all times. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del showed that many process names
> had been blanked or had strange characters, (squares, etc.)
>
> I attempted to run Adware and SpyBot antivirus, but both were blocked
> from executing. I got them to run after reinstalling and also changing
> the executable names. Of course I was so busy trying to get rid of the
> thing that did not pay attention to the virus names they gave, besides
> there were a lot of entries.
>
> After running Adaware and Spybot (and some other, I forget the name)
> several times I think the virus went away, but the corrupt process
> names still appeared. I tried to install Zone Alarm but it would not
> install. Finally I deleted the whole partition and reinstalled Windows.
>
> I was quite shaken by this episode. I did not know one could get a
> virus simply by visiting a web site. My confidence in Windows is
> severly dimished.
>
> Can you help me identifying this virus?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Manuel
>


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