Trojan alert...Little buggers: hiddenrun.exe and hidden32.exe

[Macro2]

These little trojans mask other trojans running on your system...
Norton doesn't find them....
McAffee apparently does.
TDs finds the hiddenrun.exe, not hidden32.exe.

When I deleted these and the ran norton I found 3 more trojans.
2 IRC trojans, and hacktool.flood.
I don't seem to be getting hacked as much now.

Scan your system for these two files, hiddenrun.exe and hidden32.exe and see what happens...

 

[Renob]

thanks for the heads up, my system is clean.

BTW I have never used any virus protection software.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Ditto, if you know what you are doing, you can generally stay virus/worm/etc free.

 

[Macro2]

RE:"if you know what you are doing, you can generally stay virus/worm/etc free"
Yep, just pull the plug on the net...<G>

I admit, I get a bit reckless at times, clicking on things...

 

[waitman]

Originally posted by: Renob
thanks for the heads up, my system is clean.

BTW I have never used any virus protection software.

 

[Macro2]

BTW, If you never run an AV, or trojan detector how do you know your clean? Ignorance is bliss I guess...until some hack steals your ID, passwords and credit card numbers through a backdoor trojan.

 

[Renob]

Ignorance is bliss I guess



I quess so, now were is the sand I need to stick my head in it.

BTW I do have a router and firewall set up.

 

[Johnbear007]

run a good firewall.

problem gone

 

[McMadman]

Just be cautious about what you download and run, so far I've only had a couple infections on my system, but I never run any real time virus software, I just simply scan questionable files when downloaded.

 

[Mem]

I use Anti-Troyan 5.5 as a nice backup to my anti-virus software,you can`t be too careful .

 

[Cadaver]

I've never been infected with a Trojan, though I suspect it's because I use only legit commercial software (no Kaaza, etc).

And although I run Norton Anti-Virus, I've only had one attempted system infection. Believe it or not, the "Fun Love" virus was on a CD of medical images of a patient of mine sent to me by Johns Hopkins hospital. This was about 2.5 yrs ago on my Windows ME system, and my anti-virus software popped-in as soon as the CD tray closed and the autorun program began to exicute.

I was able to clean the software and re-burn it to CD.

Johns Hopkins was shocked but happy when I informed them... they couldn't figure out why the computers at many of their offices were crashing!

However, that one close call was enough to convince me to keep an anti-virus app installed & running on all my computers.

Oh- I've recieved a few of those so-called e-mail viruses. I'm just smart enough not to execute any app sent by email.