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Indicium
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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 15:43
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Hello, my laptop recently got infected with a virus... something to do with rundll32.exe. In my system32 folder there were 2 copies of it, rundll32.exe and rundll32 .exe. I deleted both and replaced it with the copy in my i386 folder. Then I stopped receiving errors from the program. Now I have no symptoms of an infection, but Sophos keeps finding files such as hki1342.exe - in my windows temporary files and in my local application settings.

Since the antivirus is having no problem finding them and ( i think ) blocking them, is there anything to worry about?

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Asteric
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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 15:47
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Hmm, there probably be nothing too much to worry about, but the fact remains that the virus is still there, i dunno, im not smart with this stuff

Ps. I added you on MSN again, did you get the invite?

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Indicium
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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 15:56
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I think it's a seperate virus tbh, the other one was all red when the popups occured, saying a virus had been found etc, these popups are just "suspicious behavior"

Nope, I haven't got your invite, i'll ask shaun for it.

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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 20:07
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You should search for spyware too. A lot of times it's spyware not viruses that cause problems. I use Spybot Search and Destroy since it's free and works extremely well.

http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html


For viruses I use AVG which also has a free version.

http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage

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TheComet
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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 20:15
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I find that this works really well too:

http://www.superantispyware.com/downloadfile.html?productid=SUPERANTISPYWAREFREE

TheComet

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Indicium
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Posted: 6th Aug 2010 20:06
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I've been using spybot for ages, nothing comes up with that. I've not received a warning for a whole day now, so i'm assuming it's been killed.

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