Solve : Possible Virus!?

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Answer» Ok guys I'm not sure if this is a virus or not, but it just scared the st out of me! I was installing the new Macromedia Flash 8 (from the macromedia) website, and when I was installing it, things went a bit weird. My computer started acting like it was going to shut-down by closing out all programs excpet my firewall, and select other programs. Then, here's the freaky part... You know how sometimes it says when you GO to shut down that a program is still running, and it wants you to end the task? Well, I looked to see what file it was, and I didn't see a .exe file or anything, but all I saw was Should not see me and then the window closed out. I'm running HijackThis now, along with an online and system virus scan. Please help! (For those who might be wondering, the products I downloaded from Macromedia came from the OFFICIAL website, and are tiral versions. They are not pirated, so I don't think it's from that) Please respond! EDIT: HijackThis SHOWS all processes are OK. Will run scan... FlameRelax Flame, how bad can it be?Could be a hacker, could be a keylogger, could be anything! It;s too late! I'm freaked! lol FlameYou know the drill. Online Virus Scan and Spyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm Highly recommended second Online Malware Scan** http://www.ewido.net/en/Thanks Fed! I'm running a scan now. Might take a while. I'll do what I can tonight. I tried installing Flash again, and I didn't have any porblems. By looking at what the scan shows so far, it looks like it has found one Spyware. I'll find out what that is later. Maybe that's the problem... I'll be back soon :-/ Thanks again! FlameIt's easy to keep a cool head when it's someone else's computer. 8-)You're TELLING me What scares me is that I have protection! lol Most of the people who come here seem to either (1) Not have any protection or (2) have protection that was never updated. I check for updates twice daily for EVERYTHING. I run ALL my scans EVERY WEEK. Whe something like that happens, its scary lol I thought the computer was shutting down, and wasn't going to turn back on lol (It didn't shut down, but it did close out programs and flash Windows just like it does wheny ou go to shut down or restart. I chose to restart after seeing this) FlameOK, didn't get to finish last night. Scan went for an hour and was only 1/2 way done. Will resume sometime today. Flame Quote What scares me is that I have protection! What are you using for protection? What Browser, PM me if you are scared of Raptor finding out.So, ehm, what exactly is the problem, Dell fanboy?Using Norton SystemWorks 2005. Has Norton Antivirus. I have it enabled for real-time scanning. I ran Panda, but it stopped after hitting the tweak guide which I got from a link Raptor gave me. By then (almost done) all it found was a SEARCH toolbar. I'm running the other one now which so far has found tons of spyware cookies? I'll keep you posted... EDIT: Oh, I also just started using Firefox as my default. (Used MSN and sometimes IE before) FlameOk we have a break! Raptor suggested cehcking-out the event log, and I did... This is what showed... The process msiexec.exe has initiated the restart of DONNIE for the following reason: No title for this reason could be found Minor Reason: 0x2 Shutdown Type: reboot Comment: The Windows Installer initiated a system restart to complete or continue the configuration of 'Macromedia Flash Player 8'. Also, I just IMed Raptor about this, and he said: [T]Raptor says: I've seen that before as well Flame says: So there is no bug then? PHEW! [T]Raptor says: A bug is not the same as a virus nor is a bug the same as an exploit So this is not a virus or any type of fishy activity? [T]Raptor says: Nope. Sorry for the false alarm guys! I've NEVER seen anything like this before so it scared the begeezus out of me lol Thanks everyone for all your help! Flame You got 'peace of MIND' and cleaned out all the crap as well. (Except for Norton )lol not all of it, becuase it might have PICKED UP NORTON LOL The second scanner you linked didn't show you the full file path, so i didn't delete any of that stuff. I'll stick to MS AnitSpy unless anyone thinks that's a danger Flame

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Ok guys I'm not sure if this is a virus or not, but it just scared the s**t out of me! I was installing the new Macromedia Flash 8 (from the macromedia) website, and when I was installing it, things went a bit weird. My computer started acting like it was going to shut-down by closing out all programs excpet my firewall, and select other programs. Then, here's the freaky part... You know how sometimes it says when you GO to shut down that a program is still running, and it wants you to end the task? Well, I looked to see what file it was, and I didn't see a .exe file or anything, but all I saw was Should not see me and then the window closed out. I'm running HijackThis now, along with an online and system virus scan. Please help! (For those who might be wondering, the products I downloaded from Macromedia came from the OFFICIAL website, and are tiral versions. They are not pirated, so I don't think it's from that) Please respond!

EDIT: HijackThis SHOWS all processes are OK. Will run scan...

FlameRelax Flame, how bad can it be?Could be a hacker, could be a keylogger, could be anything! It;s too late! I'm freaked! lol

FlameYou know the drill.

Online Virus Scan and Spyware Scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm

Highly recommended second Online Malware Scan
http://www.ewido.net/en/Thanks Fed! I'm running a scan now. Might take a while. I'll do what I can tonight. I tried installing Flash again, and I didn't have any porblems. By looking at what the scan shows so far, it looks like it has found one Spyware. I'll find out what that is later. Maybe that's the problem... I'll be back soon :-/ Thanks again!

FlameIt's easy to keep a cool head when it's someone else's computer. 8-)You're TELLING me What scares me is that I have protection! lol Most of the people who come here seem to either (1) Not have any protection or (2) have protection that was never updated. I check for updates twice daily for EVERYTHING. I run ALL my scans EVERY WEEK. Whe something like that happens, its scary lol I thought the computer was shutting down, and wasn't going to turn back on lol (It didn't shut down, but it did close out programs and flash Windows just like it does wheny ou go to shut down or restart. I chose to restart after seeing this)

FlameOK, didn't get to finish last night. Scan went for an hour and was only 1/2 way done. Will resume sometime today.

Flame Quote

What scares me is that I have protection!

What are you using for protection?
What Browser, PM me if you are scared of Raptor finding out.So, ehm, what exactly is the problem, Dell fanboy?Using Norton SystemWorks 2005. Has Norton Antivirus. I have it enabled for real-time scanning. I ran Panda, but it stopped after hitting the tweak guide which I got from a link Raptor gave me. By then (almost done) all it found was a SEARCH toolbar. I'm running the other one now which so far has found tons of spyware cookies? I'll keep you posted...

EDIT: Oh, I also just started using Firefox as my default. (Used MSN and sometimes IE before)

FlameOk we have a break! Raptor suggested cehcking-out the event log, and I did... This is what showed...

The process msiexec.exe has initiated the restart of DONNIE for the following reason: No title for this reason could be found
Minor Reason: 0x2
Shutdown Type: reboot
Comment: The Windows Installer initiated a system restart to complete or continue the configuration of 'Macromedia Flash Player 8'.

Also, I just IMed Raptor about this, and he said:

[T]Raptor says:
I've seen that before as well
Flame says:
So there is no bug then? PHEW!
[T]Raptor says:
A bug is not the same as a virus nor is a bug the same as an exploit

So this is not a virus or any type of fishy activity?

[T]Raptor says:
Nope.

Sorry for the false alarm guys! I've NEVER seen anything like this before so it scared the begeezus out of me lol Thanks everyone for all your help!

Flame
You got 'peace of MIND' and cleaned out all the crap as well.
(Except for Norton )lol not all of it, becuase it might have PICKED UP NORTON LOL The second scanner you linked didn't show you the full file path, so i didn't delete any of that stuff. I'll stick to MS AnitSpy unless anyone thinks that's a danger

Flame

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