Funny you confirm my thoughts. I ran MS's new antispyware beta and while it
missed the .exe, it did find this:
Trojan.Delf at HKEY_
LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVe rsion\Run requestor"
While I am not a MS mega supporter, they were the only one who found this
from all the spyware checkers I have.

"MowGreen [MVP]" wrote in message
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Backdoor/trojan

BINGO !!!

Advise you to go to CastleCops and post here after reading the
guidelines first :
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html

requester(x).exe is a new malware variant. There are extremely
knowledgeable experts who will help with the removal of it.
If you can locate the file on the system and it's 1 MB or less, have it
scanned at Kapersky's online virus scanner :
http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html
They have been very good at picking up malware that are not viruses and at
least it may help you identify it.


MowGreen [MVP]
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*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
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Bill Fruge wrote:
JJ, thanks for the link. the various antivirus scanners found nothing
even when set to look heuristically for possible viruses... I suspect
that this is one of three things:
1. Backdoor/trojan that is really new...
2. Some kind of odd debuging message left by an untidy programmer...
3. Part of some other program that uses requester.10.exe as it's sender
to look for updates. However I haven't found an association to any
program on the machine.

I'll keep tearing apart the system to figure out what this thing does.
For now I'll keep blocking it until I can put a sniffer on this system. I
was hoping someone out there might have run into this. I suppose I could
try to decompile it and get a clue about what its trying to do.

Thanks,
BF

"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote:


Bill;
It seems obvious that your computer has been compromised.
Have you run an updated virus scan?

Follow the yellow section on this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

If you can not reasonably determine the source and level of corruption as
well as clean it, a Clean Installation may be the best option.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Bill Fruge" Bill wrote in message
...

I received the message that "requester.10.exe" was being blocked.
"requester.10.exe" and "requester.9.exe" two relatively new files in my
"Windows\System32" directory. Anyone have any idea what these programs
are? I
suspect its either a backdoor/trojan or whomever the anonymous
programmer(s)
left some unusual text in "requester.10.exe". In "requester.10.exe" at
line
D0 there is this word "4D 55 48 41 48 41 48 41 48 41 48 41" or
"MUHAHAHAHAHA". Ideas anyone?