Possible peper trojan

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Brian VanPelt

I have a WinXP system that will not let a screen saver appear. I
looked at the processes and one of them popped out at me: muqaz.exe.
When I did a properties on that particular file, I saw that it made
mention of kernel32, and I saw every other aspect of the file as not
listing any information.

This made me suspiscious.

In any event, I did a web search on muqaz.exe and saw a few hits that
mentioned that it is a peper trojan. However, not every place that I
visited gave me the same information. Unfortunately, this is not a
computer that I have access to on a daily basis, so I have limited
information. The latest things we have done have been to run
ad-aware, spybot and some virus scans.

muqaz.exe is still listed as a running process. I believe the file
name changes or, at least reinvents itself, if you try to delete it.
I was wondering if there is some way to be absolutely certain that
this computer has the peper trojan. If it does, there is a list of
things that I can do to clean the computer.

Also, if it happens to be positively ID'd to have the peper trojan,
can someone list the exact steps to remove it. I already have a
couple of lists, but they are not the exact same ( I assume that
different variants of the trojan require different steps ).

Thanks,

Brian
 
Brian VanPelt said:
In any event, I did a web search on muqaz.exe and saw a few hits that
mentioned that it is a peper trojan. However, not every place that I
visited gave me the same information. Unfortunately, this is not a
computer that I have access to on a daily basis, so I have limited
information. The latest things we have done have been to run
ad-aware, spybot and some virus scans.
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I cannot find any information about that MUQAZ.EXE is something one
needs. See http://computercops.biz/postp72451.html for some removal
instructions.
 
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