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  1. May 7th, 2004, 07:11 PM #1
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    Verrrry interesting! Spy? Virus?

    Hi folks,

    I am looking at a system that is showing me something I've not seen at all... and I'm amazed at the ingenuity.

    Basically, a number of applications -- I've only tested with ad/spy removal apps -- are INVISIBLE and can not be executed. If you rename the EXEs, though, they will show and up and work.

    I approached the system with a disk I use for a lot of cleanups. I just made a new one though, so when I put the disk in and saw that "Hijackthis.exe" "CoolWebShredder.exe" "Spybotsd.exe," etc, were missing, I was a little upset with myself.

    But the files were visible in another system. WTF?!

    So, I made a new disc and renamed the exes. They showed up and I could run them.

    Anyone seen something like this?

    I am about to pop the HDD in an enclosure to run a virus scan on it from trend micro.

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  2. May 7th, 2004, 10:36 PM #2
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    Ah...

    Backdoor.HackDefender
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  3. May 8th, 2004, 06:55 AM #3
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    you talking to yourself again valet?

    Glad you found the answer!
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  4. May 8th, 2004, 07:27 AM #4
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  5. May 8th, 2004, 01:18 PM #5
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    Pretty interesting little bugger, eh?
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