MISSY.EXE

[FritzTheCat]

Last nite I had a problem with my computer. After my daughter finished chatting with her freinds on instant messaging, I went to check my distributed computing client. I noticed it was not running up to speed, so I went into task manager to see what was using up cpu cycles. I noticed a new process listed called MISSY.EXE that was not there before, using about 33% of cpu cycles. I also noticed that process NAVAPSVC.EXE (Norton Anti-Virus Auto Protect Service) was rapidly growing in size. It was up to 19,220K and still growing when I closed task manager. I decided to run Ad-Aware, Spybot, and Norton to see if they could pick up anything, but Ad-Aware wouldn't load up. When I tried to close Ad-Aware, I got a blue screen saying windows was shutting down. I shut the computer off, waited a few, restarted, and went into task manager. MISSY.EXE was gone and NAVAPSVC.EXE was sitting there quietly at 892K. I ran Ad-Aware, Spybot, and Norton Amti-Virus, the only thing found was Ad-Aware picked up a small data miner, Tribal Fusion, which I removed.

Anybody have an idea as to what was happening?

 

[Agamar]

I checked for any virus named missy, no luck there.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Format C:

 

[skyking]

Sounds like one of the bugs that occupies main memory only. Some of those come in on media such as floppy disks.

 

[ProviaFan]

Make sure that your Norton Antivirus is updated with the latest definitions, and try doing a full scan. I'm not sure if this has happened, but sometimes a virus can infect the antivirus program so that it can not detect the virus. In this case, I'm not sure if an online virus scan would help, or if you would be safer with a format and reinstall.

 

[FriedToast]

I just did a quick Google on missy.exe and all I saw were links related to prOn. One did say it was from Macromedia, Inc. Maybe it's flash prOn 😀