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| Thread ID: 36128 | 2003-07-31 22:14:00 | Dssagent - harmful process in adaware. | ambasluv (1414) | Press F1 |
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| 164331 | 2003-07-31 22:14:00 | Don't suppose anybody knows much about dssagent.exe? Adaware is pinging like a really pingy thing every time my computer boots because of this wonderful program trying to load itself up. I'm a little worried, as normally the error message is different for adware-type programs trying to load, as opposed to being called harmful processes... Any information would be great - it has installed itself into the windows\bbstore\dss folder, and is the only file in the folder. Any information would be a big help. Thinking of just wacking delete on it, but seeing as it's loading itself up on boot, there's probably some registry stuff to find... Also, on a slight tangent, we have a program that attempts to run itself occasionaly, but here's the clincher. It changes every time it tries to run itself... It runs at random times, is always an exe file, but always has a different file name. What it does? It attempts to dial the internet, but never clicks the connect button on the dial-up window. When it doesn't connect to the net, it fires up another dial-up window and so on ad infinitum. Sooner or later, the computer gives up the ghost and throws a crash the program's way (This is how we know the name, General protection fault in blahblah.exe. Not BSOD type stuff, but the little grey window type. After that, we don't hear about it for the rest of the day. I've tried searching the comp for th named exe file before I kill the program, but to no avail. Have tried the same via regedit, to see if there's any hints in there, but nada. Tried running AVG to fix up all these, but, you guessed it folks, nothing, and that's with the virus info file I d/l'd about 5 mins ago... Any info would be a big help. Ambasluv |
ambasluv (1414) | ||
| 164332 | 2003-07-31 23:38:00 | This site (www.tomcoyote.org) has a few tools that may help you identify what is running in the background. | Susan B (19) | ||
| 164333 | 2003-07-31 23:52:00 | I remember ages ago I somehow got that on my laptop. Didn't know what it was, ran ad-aware 5.83 and it identified it as a spyware app running in the background and got rid of it for me :D. Cheers |
forrest44 (754) | ||
| 164334 | 2003-08-01 05:13:00 | Just typed "dssagent.exe" into Google and came up with an awful lot about this. Seems to be dial up spyware. One item is about disabling it (recommended) Hope this is of some use |
Iris (475) | ||
| 164335 | 2003-08-01 06:35:00 | Download Spybot and run that, should get that damned dialler (one of spybots strengths). Adaware and Spybot both search for "spyware" but they each have their strengths and weaknesses. My recommendation would be to use both. | Pheonix (280) | ||
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