Virusses!!! Virusses!!!

[Ameniatha]

Originally posted by OrangeGrove
I had a very strange thinh happen tonight. I use Nortons 2003 complete systemworks and anti-virus. I got a Nortons virus-alert block came up suddenly that named a file and saying it was a trojan horse and couldn't be repaired. when i clicked ok and tried to close the alert box it wouldn't let me and then I ran an update. it wouldn't let me update. I was by now in panic mode and phoned my brother who is a bit of a virus boffin.. anyway, he searched for this file in his pc to see if it was a windows file. no such file in his windows .. he talked me through deleting the file from my registery after making a back-up first.. while waiting he searched through Sophos (his AV) and other AV sites and even MS own site.. no such virus, trojan or file listed anywhere..
he then got me to e-mail the file to him. My Nortons warned me that my e-mail was sending an infected file. but the surprising part was his Sophos allowed the e-mail into his pc as not being infected.. He then had me check through my windows/system and this file is a windows-xp system file.. so I have saved the file to a floppy and deleted it from my windows, and everything is running alright without it, so far.. he has reached the conclusion that this is not a virus or a trojan but instead some sort of glitch/fault with Nortons liveupdate.. I wondered if anyone else had come across this in the last 2 days ??? the file is " un32info (exe) or if anyone else has windows XP Home edition and if that file is a part of their ... windows\system32\un32info

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Fi..

Not for anything...Norton is good for a lot of things PC wise, but has been known to have the problems which you mention...

I run WinXP pro on my pc, and have AVG as antivirus, and BlackIce as Firewall.

Both these little programs have been fantastic so far. The AVG pops up immediately when I get a virus through the net, or when I download infected files from Kazaa.....

I have now added two more small proggies to my list of maintanance utils:

Ad-Aware which removes spyware and other stuff off your pc,

and Registry Mechanic, which can find and fix errors quickly in your registry. It also makes backups. reason why this is a goodie is because it can find the remnants of uninstalled programs etc, that would normally just clog up the registry otherwise...