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Question for anyone how might know?

MY norton says i have a virus  the object is

C:\windows\system32\iexplore32.exe?

IS this right? I have no problems with my computer and am very careful what I download or install. I assume you you are using W98. There is no such file on my machine and there is no iexplore.* files in the system32 directory. Norton is probably right. You can always quarantine it and make sure everything works OK before final removal.The virus in question is>Backdoor.Aphexdoor  and its nice to see that you not failing for the sales pitch of winxp...stick with what you have m8Give up with the computer altogether and get a real life in the Army Corps of Engineers. You get better computers and better protection too!

Especially from Big brother and the Aristocats playing "Who's looking at *censored*."

As for XP it has no shortage of system resources (XP 64-bit is even better of course.) but a lot of XP computers suffer from a shortage of RAM

512Mb is really the minimum to fully multi-task. You'll probably still have a paging file, and if your system needs a paging file then it is short of RAM.

More RAM = less paging file. (Swap-file.) and the paging file is no substitute for RAM.

If you buy an XP computer for Professional use it can take the full 4 x 1024Mb of RAM, But it needs to have a MOTHERBOARD that will take four 1024Mb modules.

XP 64-bit can take 16 x 1024Mb of RAM.

Now that is for computing and not for looking at *censored*.What are you on about Mac? Your post wasn't quite related to this topic..Jeff Wolfe.....What version of Norton are you using....
If you take the advice of 2K Dummy and quarantine it....you will be able to put it back if its not a virus.....but it is .......( Actually it's a Trojan not a virus) .....here's some info on it ...
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.aphexdoor.html
I would certainly remove it.

Hope this helps

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What are you on about Mac? Your post wasn't quite related to this topic..


"The virus in question is Backdoor.Aphexdoor and it's nice to see that you not failing for the sales pitch of winxp ...stick with what you have ...

Bad advice really. XP outperforms all '9x, ME platforms as long as you realise that its performance is not limited by a shortage of system resources anymore but it can be severly limited by a shortage of RAM.

512Mb is a MINIMUM for XP 1024Mb IS defilitely better.

It CAN take up to 4·0Gb (4 x 1024Mb) and CAN use it all depending on what you are using your computer for and what programming you have, such as a Naval Architect's stability and ship-form CAD-CAM program, or other engineering/scientific program or large database.

XP 64-bit programming has even more available system resources and can use up to 16Gb of RAM.

It is to give people a better idea of the serious uses to which these computers can be put.Some background info for everyone. I am running XP with 1024MB RAM. AS for qurentine and deleting this file norton WONT qurentine or delete it?Go into task MANAGER and see if you find it running. Disable it and try again.I CHECKED task manager and nothing there. Here is something else. I tried to manually delete, access denied. PLus it doesnt always pop up? Just say every other time I start my computer?
try pest patrol that should shift it>http://www.surfsecret.com/?sid=google&gt=pestpatrol


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