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| Thread ID: 66311 | 2006-02-18 09:46:00 | MS Automatic Updates Virus? | jamesyboi (6579) | Press F1 |
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| 431874 | 2006-02-18 09:46:00 | Recently i've had many new microsoft updates. little ones......ranging from 1 to 6 small changes, once they were done i noticed i suddenly had 28 spyware files. and a trojan dialer virus. Could this be linked to the MS updates? has anyone else had any updates recently? i decided 2 turn off AU untill i know for sure. It's unusual for my computer to get any spyware or viruses. I'm not 100% sure but i think the spyware was MediaGateway and dotnet or something like that. virus was a registry code identified by AVG7.1 as Trojan Horse Dialer.*.E (note: *=?) ms updates finish rather quick and sometimes dissapear around 90% |
jamesyboi (6579) | ||
| 431875 | 2006-02-18 11:19:00 | You are mostly likely to have spyware and viruses already on your computer.........maybe a hacker......... .........check |
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| 431876 | 2006-02-18 15:45:00 | I get all XP updates. No problems for me. | Vince (406) | ||
| 431877 | 2006-02-18 20:23:00 | Only way to find out now, is to post a hijackthis log. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 431878 | 2006-02-18 20:37:00 | avg says it was Trojan horse Dialer17.E, im just wondering if its possible it came from another pc in my network | jamesyboi (6579) | ||
| 431879 | 2006-02-18 20:41:00 | And did AVG do anything about it?? Did it remove it? Not much use it telling u, you have something and it cant do anything about it. I wouldnt be online if I had a trojan. I would either use trojan remover to see if that picks it up and removes it, or post a HJT log, which may or may not show the entry for it. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 431880 | 2006-02-18 21:43:00 | AVG usuall tells you a location of where the virus/trojen is. it may be from an infected web site that you went to. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 431881 | 2006-02-18 23:36:00 | no it got rid of it, this forum is about the possibility of ms updates being a virus. not if i have the skillz to defeat one. im not n00bified | jamesyboi (6579) | ||
| 431882 | 2006-02-18 23:50:00 | i doubt it..unless you have been tricked or redirected to a fake windows update site. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 431883 | 2006-02-19 01:30:00 | no its not the website its the intergrated windows ms update | jamesyboi (6579) | ||
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