virus?

I got a lot of .exe files in my windowMe windows
directory. I run updated anti-virus scan, no virus
dectected but when windows start it run all xxxxx.exe in
windows directory and system hung since run out of
memory. Does anyone can help?

Dapper
Wed Apr 21 12:32:08 CDT 2004

Frank
Can you be more specific with the programs ?
May not be a virus; rather it may very well be caused by malware
and/or spyware.

If you don't already have these free utilities, I suggest you
download them, immediately check for updates and then run a scan to
clean up your system. Delete everything that AdAware finds but use
judgement with Spybot. Generally you can delete everything that is red
flagged, but just check it over to ensure that it isn't part of one of
your programs.

AdAware http://www.lavasoft.de/

Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org

Hope this helps.

Dan



"frank" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:248001c427c2$641409b0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I got a lot of .exe files in my windowMe windows
> directory. I run updated anti-virus scan, no virus
> dectected but when windows start it run all xxxxx.exe in
> windows directory and system hung since run out of
> memory. Does anyone can help?

Rick
Wed Apr 21 12:45:45 CDT 2004

frank wrote:

> I got a lot of .exe files in my windowMe windows
> directory. I run updated anti-virus scan, no virus
> dectected but when windows start it run all xxxxx.exe in
> windows directory and system hung since run out of
> memory. Does anyone can help?

something called xxxxx.exe certainly does sound like malware of some sort.

Try these tools out, and post back what you've found.

free for personal use antivirus tool:
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

spybot/adware detection & removal tools:
http://www.safer-networking.org/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/


Rick

anonymous
Thu Apr 22 10:50:54 CDT 2004

I tried Spybot which found a lot of thing need to be fixed
but nothing related to xxxxxxxx.exe(xxxxx = any
combination of char & digit) which is in windows directory
and shortcut in startup.

I delete all shortcut from startup but it automatically
generate shortcut to startup folder again. I also delete
some xxxx.exe which I think is virus. Now the machine
boot with message .lnk missing message.


>-----Original Message-----
>frank wrote:
>
>> I got a lot of .exe files in my windowMe windows
>> directory. I run updated anti-virus scan, no virus
>> dectected but when windows start it run all xxxxx.exe
in
>> windows directory and system hung since run out of
>> memory. Does anyone can help?
>
>something called xxxxx.exe certainly does sound like
malware of some sort.
>
>Try these tools out, and post back what you've found.
>
>free for personal use antivirus tool:
>http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
>
>spybot/adware detection & removal tools:
>http://www.safer-networking.org/
>http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
>
>
>Rick
>.
>

Rick
Thu Apr 22 19:46:59 CDT 2004

anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
> I tried Spybot which found a lot of thing need to be fixed
> but nothing related to xxxxxxxx.exe(xxxxx = any
> combination of char & digit) which is in windows directory
> and shortcut in startup.
>

Try the other ones, too.

Rick