Weather Watcher in infected with Spyware/virus?

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It installs a program called dl.exe
dl.exe is a file associated with the W32.Bagz@mm worm

Weather Watch is supposed to be Adware-free, spyware-free, hassle-free.
 
gary_zw said:
It installs a program called dl.exe
dl.exe is a file associated with the W32.Bagz@mm worm

Weather Watch is supposed to be Adware-free, spyware-free, hassle-free.
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As far as I know this dl.exe is the downloader of the weather
conditions, and has nothing to do with spyware. I have a Norton AV
virusscan every friday, and that worm you mentioned has never showed
up.

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Do a google search for dl.exe every hit say it is a virus,

dl.exe is a file associated with the W32.Bagz@mm worm

W32.Bagz@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to
send itself to email addresses gathered from the infected computer.
 
gary_zw said:
Do a google search for dl.exe every hit say it is a virus,
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[SNIP]
I just wrote a program, source code in a file called "dl.c" which VC++
compiled to be "dl.exe". Does that mean that I have now installed a
virus on my machine?

BTW - here is the contents of "dl.c":
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("Just because a filename is reported somewhere as being a\n");
printf("virus/trojan/worm, it does not mean that _all_ files\n");
printf("with that name _are_ that virus/trojan/worm\n");

return 0;
}
 
gary_zw said:
Do a google search for dl.exe every hit say it is a virus,
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[SNIP]
I just wrote a program, source code in a file called "dl.c" which VC++
compiled to be "dl.exe". Does that mean that I have now installed a
virus on my machine?

BTW - here is the contents of "dl.c":
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("Just because a filename is reported somewhere as being a\n");
printf("virus/trojan/worm, it does not mean that _all_ files\n");
printf("with that name _are_ that virus/trojan/worm\n");

return 0;
}
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well put :-)

I also heard that run.bat was a virus :-)
 
It installs a program called dl.exe
dl.exe is a file associated with the W32.Bagz@mm worm

Weather Watch is supposed to be Adware-free, spyware-free, hassle-free.
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I am having "dl.exe "in Weather Watch folder but no, it is not spyware,
virus or whatsoever.
 
gary_zw said:
Do a google search for dl.exe every hit say it is a virus
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Hey dipshit, you do realize that MANY apps can be called dl.exe,
don't you? Your dl.exe may be a virus, but my dl.exe isn't.
And my virus checker finds no problem with Weather Watcher.
 
gary_zw said:
Do a google search for dl.exe every hit say it is a virus,
Click to expand...
[SNIP]
I just wrote a program, source code in a file called "dl.c" which VC++
compiled to be "dl.exe". Does that mean that I have now installed a
virus on my machine?

BTW - here is the contents of "dl.c":
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("Just because a filename is reported somewhere as being a\n");
printf("virus/trojan/worm, it does not mean that _all_ files\n");
printf("with that name _are_ that virus/trojan/worm\n");

return 0;
}
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Just curious. What input is main(int argc, char *argv[]) expecting?
 
Buz said:
gary_zw said:
Do a google search for dl.exe every hit say it is a virus,
Click to expand...

[SNIP]
I just wrote a program, source code in a file called "dl.c" which VC++
compiled to be "dl.exe". Does that mean that I have now installed a
virus on my machine?

BTW - here is the contents of "dl.c":
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("Just because a filename is reported somewhere as being a\n");
printf("virus/trojan/worm, it does not mean that _all_ files\n");
printf("with that name _are_ that virus/trojan/worm\n");

return 0;
}
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Just curious. What input is main(int argc, char *argv[]) expecting?
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None.

Just force of habit that I (semi-)fully specify my main/entry function
in any language I write it, it just makes adding command line parameters
later a bit simpler.

Oh, if you don't know how C/C++ gets arguments from the command line,
argc is the number of parameters on the command line, including the
image name, and argv is an array of character strings.

Example:
$ dl p1 p2 p3 p4
would have
argc == 5
argv[0] == "dl"
argv[1] == "p1"
argv[2] == "p2"
argv[3] == "p3"
argv[4] == "p4"
argv[5] == NULL

Cheers,
Gary B-)
 
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