Question for people using Win98 and IE5

[Gooberslot]

Is there supposed to be a file named iexplorer.exe in your windows/system directory? I have one but I think it might be a virus because it was accessing the internet by itself. It also keeps loading itself at startup no matter how many times I remove it from win.ini and the registry.

BTW, I'm not talking about iexplore.exe(IE5) in case you thought I misspelled it.

 

[IsOs]

Looks like very suspicious to me. My Iexplore.exe is inside Internet Explorer in the Program Files. Do a property check on the file and see what it says. Search your harddisk if you can find other files that begins with iexplore*.*

Do you have an AntiVirus program? Download one and check your system.

 

[Psychoholic]

I would have to agree with IsOs. I have never seen a file called iexplorer.exe packages with IE or Windows. I did double check on some 98 and W2K computers here and turned up no files by that name. Can you disable the running of the file through msconfig?

I would install a virus scanner or update my data files if I already had one.

 

[Gooberslot]

I finally got rid of it(I hope) and Windows seems to be working just fine so I guess it was a virus. Doing a little more digging I discovered it was written in VB6 and was exactly 64k long(65536 bytes) which makes it even more suspicious. I have Mcafee Virus Scan but it didn't report it so I guess it must be too new. Can anybody recommend any anti-virus places I can report this to?

 

[dennilfloss]

I remember seeing something about the iexplorer.exe file in a magazine (PC Magazine or PC world) a few months ago. They did say it was a virus if I remember well. They did state that it was not to be confused with iexplore.exe.

Not sure if this is the same thing: http://oliver.efri.hr/~crv/security/bugs/NT/word2.html