Is this a virus? Might have gotten it from a iPod

[Thought54]

well, i think i might have gotten a virus from my friends ipod. he's pretty crappy about security on this computer

so i connected his ipod to my computer today thru a firewire connection and gave him some music. later on, when i restart my computer, i notice trying to install some new hardware. namely something that is named after my printer (NEC SuperScript 870) but spelled like this SUPErScrIPT. so i immidiatly get suspicious and i am now running a virus scan on my whole computer. but first i click uninstall on the driver and restart. the computer restarts but now the driver comes up as "PrInTGEaar(square symbol dunno how to type it)PCL(square again)PHL SUPErScrIPT" and tries to install again.

i've been googling to try to find another case of a virus that does something like this, but i cant seem to find anything. at most there is a "easter egg" that says somethign about a bogus driver, but this is different.

does anyone here have any experience with something like this?

 

[yukichigai]

Unplug your printer and see if it starts doing it again. Sometimes when printer drivers get corrupted you can get interesting device names like that. And Connecting a new firewire device could theoretically have been the straw that corrupted the camels back... as it were.

Beyond that update your antivirus. If you're using Norton, stop: it's useless. Get AVG and try running a virus scan.

If all else fails you may want to reformat. This is one of the reasons I have separate system and data storage partitions.

 

[XplosiV]

LOL but if your running AVG - STOP its just as useless as nortan, and get Norman, with sandboxing much safer @ http://www.norman.com

 

[Schadenfroh]

norman? never heard of that

 

[XplosiV]

Most people havent, they do a few nice bits of software, but they happen to be one of the few who make an advanced antivirus program that uses sandboxing

 

[SuPrEIVIE]

it looks good with that sandboxing but 60$ a year is pretty mean