vinavbar?

[Hannibal]

Is anyone here familiar with the term "vinavbar"? It's a subdirectory
in the bots subdirectory on my HD. It is empty, but when I try to
delete it I am told it is in use by other programs. Symantec's website
has never heard of it.

Hannibal

 

[Karel]

Is anyone here familiar with the term "vinavbar"? It's a subdirectory
in the bots subdirectory on my HD. It is empty, but when I try to
delete it I am told it is in use by other programs. Symantec's website
has never heard of it.

Hannibal

Download & update:

Spybot
www.security.kolla.de
Spywareblaster
www.wilderssecurity.net
Ad-aware
www.lavasoft.de
HijackThis
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/

 

[Hannibal]

http://www.olympic.ctc.edu/class/dbergman/cmptr217/vinavbartip.html

Thanks very much for your replies. I have already installed and run
Spybot. Do I need to install and run the other programs you recommend
as well?

The vinavbar directory on my computer is at c:\program files\common
files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\40\bots. This does not
square with what the above link says the file location should be. I am
not running a server, just two computers with a DSL connection through a
Netgear router.

The vinavbar subdirectory was created on my computer when I clicked on a
newsgroup message. I did not open the attachment, but the attachment
name was the same as the above mentioned directory name, plus a
multidigit file name. This filename does not appear on my computer -
the vinavbar subdirectory is supposedly empty. My router, my Norton, my
XP Pro software firewall, and Spybot have ignored it. I did download a
Windows Update that claimed it fixed an IE vulnerability, and that may
somehow be connected with this odd little subdirectory.

Hannibal