I have an odd message from the Windows Security in XP sp2

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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?
 
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.
 
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
 
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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Never Forgotten
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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\CurrentVersion\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.
 
I thought I posted this earlier. MS's antispy identified it and removed it
from the registry. I deleted the files and it's gone. Not a big deal. I am
glad XP sp2 found it in the first place. It's about time a OS spots odd port
activity. Kudos to MS.
 
Bill said:
I thought I posted this earlier. MS's antispy identified it and removed it
from the registry. I deleted the files and it's gone. Not a big deal. I am
glad XP sp2 found it in the first place. It's about time a OS spots odd port
activity. Kudos to MS.
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