Unknown Executables

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Brian D. McGrew

Good evening all,

I'm not the worlds foremost Windows expert, I'm usually off in a Unix world,
so I'll ask this here, I'm seeing some weird stuff on my Win2K AS in the
last few days.

1) Everytime I login I get 3 C:\WINNT\System32\net.exe popups that flash by
too fast to read them.
2) When I logged in tonight, WinRAR (which I was no aware was installed on
the system) popped up and extracted a file called cvssdp.exe into the
C:\WINNT\System32 directory. A search on Google revealed nothing about this
executable.
3) Within the last couple weeks I been getting warning emails from my ISP
about this server being an open realy however, to my knowledge there is no
mail client nor server software installed (I do not have SMTP services nor
Exchange on this machine).

Someone please help me track this down! And of course my virus scaner
(Symantec Antivirus Corporation Edition) says everything is clean.

Thanks,

-brian
 
Good evening all,

I'm not the worlds foremost Windows expert, I'm usually off in a Unix world,
so I'll ask this here, I'm seeing some weird stuff on my Win2K AS in the
last few days.

1) Everytime I login I get 3 C:\WINNT\System32\net.exe popups that flash by
too fast to read them.

Use tip 2620 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com to find where they are starting from

2) When I logged in tonight, WinRAR (which I was no aware was installed on
the system) popped up and extracted a file called cvssdp.exe into the
C:\WINNT\System32 directory. A search on Google revealed nothing about this
executable.
3) Within the last couple weeks I been getting warning emails from my ISP
about this server being an open realy however, to my knowledge there is no
mail client nor server software installed (I do not have SMTP services nor
Exchange on this machine).

Someone please help me track this down! And of course my virus scaner
(Symantec Antivirus Corporation Edition) says everything is clean.

Thanks,

-brian


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
 
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