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Is this a virus????? HELP!!! UPDATE!!!!!!

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Dean

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my computer started acting really strange tonight and unstable, i lost my nic drivers etc.

i hit ctrl alt del to try to do a hot reboot and i noticed something in my dialog box along with the normal startup programs. It said "deleteme1"

its still running in my environment but my virus scanner says everything is ok

anyone ever heard of this?..i'm running win98se

also i went into mysystem configuration utility and its not listed amoung the normal startup files
 
i think it is a virus. if you have macafee then that program barely ever picks up any virus and if it does it wont delete it. Get Norton AntiVirus 2001 and make sure you have all of your updated Virus Def. Files
 
This is Very Interesting. Everytime I reboot win2k, I see a DeleteMe2.exe file. I searched for the file, and it was in my Quicktime plugin folder. There are 2 files, Deleteme1.exe and Deleteme2.exe. I saw this before (it seem they multiple), and deleted 4 files (all says deletemeX.exe [x is the number]). I posted this before, and someone said to delete them, cause Quicktime wouldn't use a file name like that. Why would it start on a reboot anyway...

This is really pissing me off. I'm going to uninstall that POS software now.

Hope someone knows what this is all about.
 
Found this:
I decided to defrag my hard drive this morning and did crtl-alt-del to
bring up the task list. Now, I admit, I don't know what everything is
because of some the names, but one caught my attention. The last one on
the list was DeleteMe1. I didn't remember installing anything that might
have been named that and it wasn't in the startup folder. Instead of
checking other places that stuff is loaded from, I just did a search for
delete and found DeleteMe1.exe in c:\Program Files\Quick
Time\Plugins\DeleteMe1.exe
I did recently go to the apple quicktime website and get the newest
version. Don't recall anything about a deleteme plugin though. Is this
something that should have been removed after the install or something else
that I should get rid of? I haven't been running out of resources, memory,
or crashing more often than usual but if it's something I don't need to (or
shouldn't) be loading...


 
Yes.. thats exactly it CRV. It's not doing anything harmful, but I'm not willing to find out. I uninstalled QT. Never use that junk anyway.

I'm still curious to find out WTF it is though.
 
Ran it through nearly 30 engines including the major Virus vendors and found nothing related to it being a virus. Did find the odd FTP site with file names of Deleteme1 which is normal, a .gif image of a button and a swirl thing around it... and even found a few "Pictures" named Deleteme1 and Deleteme2 (Twins! LOL) :Q..and the references to the QuickTime plugin, so I would just delete it and see if it stays away.

BTW: If you still have it, you could send it to me and I'll see what I can find out.
 
well i lost windows totally...i have no idea what was going on, but i could not even load up in safe mode.....i had to load on win 98 first edition upgrade ..i can't find my damn 98se disk!!!arggg

so whatever is it its still on my system...norton didn't find anything


as soon as windows would try to load explorer would fail, i would end up with an empty desktop in normal or safe mode

now i have on win98 first edition and this thing feels damn fast...i'm totally lost on this one
 
Oh Crap
I wonder what the h*ll went on here? Did you have a quicktime plugin like SSP found and I found mention of?

What exactly is the problem now and how did you lose windows?..What error5 messages did you get?

Do you still have the deleteme1 file?
 
The deleteme1 file is no longer loaded with the new install...i uninstalled quicktime as a precaution also. The only place where i feel i could have gotten a virus was yesterday when i installed divx.

i still have the install file on my d: drive and i'm gonna scan it and see what it say...its still scanning drive c: right now so i'll wait till its finished
 
Yes, send it to me

BTW
You uninstalled QuickTime and the file is still in the folder? Or did you mean in the install file on another drive?
 
Got it.

What I found does confirm it's a plugin for QuickTime:
00005936: GetStringTypeW
00006031: \Plugins
0000603C: InstallDir
00006048: Software\Apple Computer, Inc
00006066: QuickTime
00006075: \npqtplugin
00006089: \npqtw16.
00006099: \npqtw32.
000060AC: InstallFolders
000060BC: Deferred
000060C8: QuickTime Plugin Install
000060E4: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
00006114: QTMLDeferredPluginUpdateMutex
00006134: DeferredMutexName
00006148: Software\Apple Computer, Inc
00006166: QuickTime\Installed Plugins
00007000: NB10
00007013: qtml\buildresults\nosym\QTPlugIn\DeferredPluginInstaller.

I scanned it with 4 scanners and they said it's clean, what happened to your system is a mystery though..unless this file has nothing to do with the fact that you picked up another type of virus recently and something else caused this.

Can you remember any specific error messages?
 
The only error i got was right after i i loaded up another virus scanner, it installed and then rebooted(when i was installing it windows was stalling bad when i closed the deleteme1 file in the dialog box)...when windows rebooted the illegal operation came up saying explorer exe failed
 
yeah it uninstalled and the folder deleted with the file no problem...i still feel the problem started with installing divx. It may have caused some sort of problem between divx and quicktime in my registry which it could not recover from. I do know one thing though, the deleteme1 file was never loaded into my windows environment before. And when i rebooted it continued to load...strange

For a while i thought it may have been directx 8 which i still have loaded and cannot get rid of until my next format 🙁

but it seems to be working ok now
 
I've sent a copy of this thread and the file to Symantec and Mcafee just for their opinion anyway.
Like you said it could be unrelated though, I'll bump this if they find anything.
 
go to www.antivirus.com and use their free online virus scanner. much more reliable than mcafee or symantec IMO. i use virus scanners daily for clients and find that pc-cillan's online scanner is the best out there. if it can't kill the virus (never had it not at least find the nasty thing) they have a nice encyclopedia with lots of ways to kill stuff like the aol virus.

~erik
 
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