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January 28th 09, 05:20 AM
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Hey All,
Had the usual tracing cookies, but this time, I have a few new items - I Googled them & no results, other than a few Registry Fix Sites. In the results, under Adware.Vundo/Variant, are these 2: C:\I386\NVARCH16.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\NVARCH16.DLL What are they & should I Delete them ? Thanks very much as always! -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP Home 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T 
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January 28th 09, 09:08 AM
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January 28th 09, 01:07 PM
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January 28th 09, 04:44 PM
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Don, thanks very much but I am skeptical as I know nothing of which you
speak; sorry - novice here! but the via cmd & rest attribs has me lost - again. thanks anyway -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP Home 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T "Don Phillipson" wrote in message ... "Dallas" Jagged wrote in message ... In the results, under Adware.Vundo/Variant, are these 2: C:\I386\NVARCH16.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\NVARCH16.DLL What are they & should I Delete them ? Standard procedure for doubtful cases like this is 1. Rename 2. Reboot 3. Run i.e. 1. REN C:\I386\NVARCH16.DLL C:\I386\xNVARCH16.DLL via CMD if necessary, resetting Attribs if necessary. 2. Reboot PC 3. Results (abnormal behavior or error messages with no functional) can be interpreted and repairs implemented if functionally needed. 4. RENamed files can later be restored or renamed or deleted as convenient. If the original filenames reappear spontaneously, this tells us they are rewritten by some other part of the malware. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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January 29th 09, 03:03 AM
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Dallas
Delete them or quarantine them with SuperAntiSpyware. They are malware files by origin -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Dallas" Jagged wrote in message ... Hey All, Had the usual tracing cookies, but this time, I have a few new items - I Googled them & no results, other than a few Registry Fix Sites. In the results, under Adware.Vundo/Variant, are these 2: C:\I386\NVARCH16.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\NVARCH16.DLL What are they & should I Delete them ? Thanks very much as always! -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP Home 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T
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January 29th 09, 10:05 AM
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"Dallas" Jagged wrote in message ... Thanks & yes I know, but it is on my XP. Not everything that can be done on an XP computer is necessarily appropriate for an "XP Basics" newsgroup, if you think about it. Yours is specifically a (potential) malware problem; more focussed groups are out there, microsoft.public.security.virus if you want an MS one. This isn't just being pedantic or trying to fob you off - there are folk there with more specialist knowledge. Also, a search on a forum's history may give you directly an answer that someone else has already found; even if not, your thread may well help out someone else down the line. I did the Spybot & it didn't even find them! Hmm, yes, that's why the suggestion is often made not to rely on just one or even two anti-malware apps. It could be a false positive - which you stand more chance of establishing at the SuperAntiSpyware forums as suggested (it looks like the URL is http://forums.superantispyware.com - I'm not 100% sure because my company has blocked access to that site on security grounds...). Did you try Malwarebytes AntiMalware (http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php) as also suggested? I'd also recommend uploading the .dll files to www.virustotal.com - that'll run them through up to date versions of some 30+ scanners. I think you can do it directly from the web site, but there's a small utility they offer for download that adds an uploader to your "Send To" menu - I find it very useful. (For files up to 10Mb, IIRC.) & when I Googled them, as I said in the original Post, it had nothing to show for it. It wasn't clear from your original post exactly what terms you'd tried Googling. I got about 8,500 results for the phrase I suggested, "Adware.Vundo/Variant": http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...riant%22&meta= I will Google the driver for the Graphics card - why suggest that ? Is it somehow related to the Adware NVARCH issue I raised ? Only do so if yours *is* an nVidia card...! I mentioned it because "NVIDIA Compatible Resource Manager" came up several times when I Googled "nvarch16.dll". I can't help wondering what you actually *did* Google that found "no results"! Thanks! -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP Home 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T "Olórin" wrote in message ... "Dallas" Jagged wrote in message ... Hey All, Had the usual tracing cookies, but this time, I have a few new items - I Googled them & no results, other than a few Registry Fix Sites. In the results, under Adware.Vundo/Variant, are these 2: C:\I386\NVARCH16.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\NVARCH16.DLL What are they & should I Delete them ? Thanks very much as always! -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP Home 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T This isn't an XP question; suggest you try a security or SuperAntiSpyware forum. Also, scan with one or two other antimalware products too (eg Spybot Search & Destroy and Malwarebytes) and Google around the term "Adware.Vundo/Variant". You might also want to grab the latest nVidia driver for your graphics card and install that.
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January 29th 09, 04:59 PM
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Great, thank you Peter.
Hope you're doing well. -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP Home 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T "Peter Foldes" wrote in message ... Dallas Delete them or quarantine them with SuperAntiSpyware. They are malware files by origin -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Dallas" Jagged wrote in message ... Hey All, Had the usual tracing cookies, but this time, I have a few new items - I Googled them & no results, other than a few Registry Fix Sites. In the results, under Adware.Vundo/Variant, are these 2: C:\I386\NVARCH16.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\NVARCH16.DLL What are they & should I Delete them ? Thanks very much as always! -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP Home 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T
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