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Winstall.exe - helpp!!

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by alisaselez, Dec 16, 2006.

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  1. alisaselez

    alisaselez New Member

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    Hi everebody
    My computer was infected with a trojan virus today, from a link from someone on msn messenger. I ran AVG Free and the virus went to the vault, which i have deleted and all seems to be running fine now. however, i've had to vault it three times. when I restart, the virus seems to reappear. but my computer is running fine.

    but...

    there is an icon on my desktop titled winstall.exe which when scanned doesn't contain a virus, but I have just had a quick scan thru some stuff on the internet and get the idea that its a nasty little program that lets other nasty stuff infect my computer I can't delete it, and in fact, am not sure if this is accurate and am a little worried its an important windows file i shouldnt be deleting at all.

    I've now installed Avira Antivir as well, as a double up safety precaution, but no spyware detection programs as yet (I'm not even sure if I'm wording that correctly..)

    help??
    Thanks a lot
     
  2. efusco

    efusco Moderator Emeritus
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    Your first post, on a Prius forum, is about a computer virus issue? I'm gonna move this to the Fred's House of Pancakes forum where, perhaps, someone can help you. But you might wanna look at some computer specific forums for help on this....
     
  3. jdenenberg

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Dec 16 2006, 07:46 AM) [snapback]363078[/snapback]</div>
    Evan,

    Alisa also posted this cry for help on Prius Online. I ignored it's OT nature and gave her directions on fixing the problem.

    JeffD
     
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    DaveinOlyWA 3rd Time was Solariffic!!

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    obviously a newbie to many things. i hope your problems get resolved and welcome to Priuschat
     
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    MegansPrius GoogleMeister, AKA bongokitty

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    I'm afraid this might just be spam. A google of avira winstall.exe helpp! brings up 180 instances of this message, posted in forums with no discernable connection, and all the ones of the two pages of results were posted Dec 15 (didn't bother looking beyond that).
     
  6. efusco

    efusco Moderator Emeritus
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MegansPrius @ Dec 16 2006, 12:10 PM) [snapback]363135[/snapback]</div>
    That's good enough for me, I'll moderate the poster and close the thread and advise folks not to buy/look up avira.



    Pretty lousy job of spamming though...no link?

    BTW, if the OP is legit please just PM the mods and let us know and we'll restore your posting priveledges.
     
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