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

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Macro2

Diamond Member
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...
 
thanks for the heads up, my system is clean.

BTW I have never used any virus protection software.😀
 
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...
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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