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Started by Citizen Erased in Chit-Chat

My computer recently got infected with Spyaxe/Spywarestrike - I’ve managed to get rid of it but there’s ‘something’ still on my computer. There’s nothing obviously wrong with my computer, but I keep getting the following bugs picked up by my AV software:

AVG (Free version) - Downloader.Generic.PCM

McAfee VirusScan - Downloader.AQW & New Malware.j (which it then says is ms.cornet.exe)

Microsoft Antispyware Beta - Trojan.downloader.Slvr

Both Spybot and Adaware come back clean. Anyone got any ideas whether these are dangerous bugs (and how I get rid of them), or just false positives…?

Posted on Wed, 18 January 2006 at 09:43

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Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

No idea, but have you tried putting them into a search engine? You can sometimes find out that way.

Posted on Wed, 18 January 2006 at 10:15

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Citizen Erased wrote:

googling them proved surprisingly unhelpful. I thought Google knew everything. I was wrong.

The is no such thing as certainty any more :(

Posted on Wed, 18 January 2006 at 11:40

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deadsetgav wrote:

Citizen Erased wrote:

The is no such thing as certainty any more :(

Are you sure?

Posted on Wed, 18 January 2006 at 12:38

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Citizen Erased wrote:

Not entirely, I must admit ;)

Posted on Wed, 18 January 2006 at 14:33

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tgE wrote:

Could try reading this, though it’s a bit geeky :
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=87707

Posted on Wed, 18 January 2006 at 16:47

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Christian wrote:

You could just delete them manually I guess.

I suggest you do an onlinescan with http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm

You should get a report, anything that is reported there should be removed by you if it isn’t disinfected anyway.

Posted on Wed, 18 January 2006 at 17:19

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Citizen Erased wrote:

Thanks guys. Whenever I try deleting it, it comes back the next time I run a scan, with or without rebooting & with system restore disabled.

I’ll give those links a go and let you know if I have more trouble.

Posted on Wed, 18 January 2006 at 20:12

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