Norton is finding kbdusx.exe as a virus. Can't delete it.

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Steve Horrillo

Norton is detecting kbdusx.exe as a virus. It seems to be locked and I can't
heal, quarantine or delete it. It is in the C:\window\system32 directory.BTW
I ran AVG, Norton, Trend Micro and several spyware removal programs. My OS
is XP Pro. I searched for this file on my other XP machine and it doesn't
exist. What should I do to fix this problem?
 
Steve Horrillo said:
Norton is detecting kbdusx.exe as a virus. It seems to be locked and I
can't
heal, quarantine or delete it. It is in the C:\window\system32
directory.BTW
I ran AVG, Norton, Trend Micro and several spyware removal programs. My OS
is XP Pro. I searched for this file on my other XP machine and it doesn't
exist. What should I do to fix this problem?
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Could be ? :
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w97m.michael.gen.html
 
Steve said:
Norton is detecting kbdusx.exe as a virus. It seems to be locked and I can't
heal, quarantine or delete it. It is in the C:\window\system32 directory.BTW
I ran AVG, Norton, Trend Micro and several spyware removal programs. My OS
is XP Pro. I searched for this file on my other XP machine and it doesn't
exist. What should I do to fix this problem?
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I have seen worse; the program runs as a task that cannot be stopped,
and the exe re-appears after being deleted.
Solution: re-boot, and as soon as the desktop appears,
<Ctrl><Alt><Delete> to the task manager and kill that
process...wait...kill it again when it re-appears (likely)...wait and
look to see that it does not re-appear.
NOW you can delete the damn EXE.
These virus / spybot programs seem to be placed in the system32
directory, and are easy to find - using the windows explorer, sort by
date with most recent first.
They will stand out by their recent dates.
You may have one or two more that you did not see otherwise.
 
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