He-he-he ... I of course got confus-ed ! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by les
So if its the one with a 'Q' then it isn't 'real' ... as said it's 'bad' :)
If none of your malware removers is getting it, try the 'daddy' - HijackThis
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He-he-he ... I of course got confus-ed ! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by les
So if its the one with a 'Q' then it isn't 'real' ... as said it's 'bad' :)
If none of your malware removers is getting it, try the 'daddy' - HijackThis
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Originally Posted by confus-ed
OK so I've downloaded Hijackthis, What do I do with the info?
PS it is still running when it feels like, screws up network connection & Outlook.
post the info here, we will help you dissect it.
I'm not sure I knw how to that, name it something close to a standard file. I think your are right, though, I have a virus. Unfortunately I don'e even have a worinkg CD-ROM to load a new anit-virus program. I have and old version of Norton's running but haven't updated it for a long time. ihave ordered a new CD-ROM and am waiting for delivery.Quote:
Originally Posted by NooNoo
do you think I can clear this thing up by just calling it another name? I'v heard of somenting about this before but it is burried under some heavy folds of gray matter.
I appreciate your help.
Thanks Gary
So NO it'll do no good ...Quote:
Originally Posted by ghsam
Okay dokey - so you don't have a virus, you have a trojan ! (similar yet different - a virus destroys data - a trojan pretends to be something 'nice' when its most likely spyware) - its collectively called 'malware' ;)
Post up the great long hijackthis log (as requested ;)) then we can advise .. :)
BTW - Anti-virus software is absolutely no damn good at all if you don't update the definitions ! :devil: ... For FREE - Try AVG free edition (not the worlds greatest - but IMHO, pretty f. good, if you ain't paying ! :D)
Thank you for your input! How you distinguish between a virus and a trogan? and thanks for the free anti virus site. Unfortunately I have no way of injecting any athi-virus software, as I have no CD-ROM drive (it's broken, have been using an external) and I can only boot up in save mode, so I can't get on the internet to download anything. I guess there must be a way to operate in DOS, but I am not very adept in that operating system. do you have any suggestions as to how I can get around this set of obstacles?Quote:
Originally Posted by confus-ed
Again, thanks for your input!
Ghsam
So you are of course welcome :) ... & now I 'get' your problem - no cd & no internet access on your 'broken' machine :thumbs: ( you need to tell us all this stuff - so you'd have been better starting a new thread with all your symptoms & maybe linking that to this thread instead of 'hijacking' {tacking-on} to this one ...) I only just figured out you are the 3rd person asking on the same thread, 3 slightly different things ! ;)*Quote:
Originally Posted by ghsam
So let me try & answer (now I told you off!) .. :)
Briefly .. a virus is something that destroys data by alteration with a 'host', a trojan is a foreign process that pretends to be 'good' & a worm is a self replicating process that generally attacks networks - all refered to as malware - malicious software ... Malware vs. Virus vs. Worm vs. Trojan - so here I'd 'guess' it was trojan as its pretending to be msGsvr32 - like wot I wuz confus-ed wiff ! :D
They all though need something to 'work' that is either by infecting a file or getting something running to do it ...
You should be able to get these two tools onto a floppy & therefore your machine, as you must have net access to be asking me :D, so download these ..F Prot - dos anti-virus (free for home users if you register) & the aforementioned HijackThis - malware remover (that's a 197k & I never got around to checking f-prot - BUT you can span pretty much any file over several floppies with something like winzip, just depends how many floppies you want to deal with ! So you could choose say avg as well & install that's dos version of AV & go with that if you prefer or 'whatever') ..
Then you run them :D - you probaly will need to copy the hijack this log maybe to a file & post that here, as they are very long & 'scary' & hopefully the av should do its stuff (though I think if it starts in safe mode hijackthis will reveal much as if it was a virus that stopped boot it'd stop safe mode too, while safe mode loads less 'stuff' dependant on whatever the hell o/s this is ...)
However ... hole in plot alert ! ... if this is on an ntfs file system (so NT anything, w2k or 50/50 on xp but not 9x that's FAT or FAT32) then you don't have dos but 'prompt' which is similar but not 'real' dos {file sytem is different} then the AV won't work & I'm gonna have a job on naming one ! like I said earlier though I think trojan ...
* Whoa I wrote loads .. & completely confus-ed whilst doing so ... no wonder it took to long to answer, when I didn't know which poster was asking what ! :D
Looks as though may have found where this little beast sits. Ended up setting up a new profle in Outlook & now for 4 days it has been absent. So does it attach itself to something in the user profile settings in Outlook?
what is it called?
MSQSRVexeQuote:
Originally Posted by NooNoo
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http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1051678384