A virus, or not?

I routinely ran spybot and ad-aware, in addition to my AVG virus checker and
the on-line virus check with Trend Micro and RAV.

None of them detected any malware.

Then I installed the MS Antispyware program. It immediately found a Trojan:
iteye, located in c:/windows\system32\notpad.exe . It is shown as a high
threat level.

Why do all these other programs not detect something as obvious as
notpad.exe??

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siljaline
Wed Jun 15 21:36:39 CDT 2005

"Walter R." wrote:
>I routinely ran spybot and ad-aware, in addition to my AVG virus checker and the
>on-line virus check with Trend Micro and RAV.
>
> None of them detected any malware.
>
> Then I installed the MS Antispyware program. It immediately found a Trojan: iteye,
> located in c:/windows\system32\notpad.exe . It is shown as a high threat level.
>
> Why do all these other programs not detect something as obvious as notpad.exe??

Virus, trojan, worm, malware - yes!

Notice the spelling of "notpad" - *not* a valid Windows file.
"notepad.exe" under Windows XP, is located in the [C:\WINDOWS] directory.
Run MS anti-spyware again and follow the prompted actions to take with this file.

Silj

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Crouchie1998
Wed Jun 15 21:51:18 CDT 2005

I actually put about the spelling/location in my previous post & then
deleted it before posting. Ironic really - lol

Crouchie1998
BA (HONS) MCP MCSE

Srikrishna
Thu Jun 16 05:11:35 CDT 2005

If its a real virus I am sure the rest of the programs also would have
alerted as well..Most likely i suspect the situation where you're infected
with this worm/virus/Trojan recently or just before downloading MS Anti
Spyware...
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Srikrishna Komatineni

"Walter R." <wer25@example.com> wrote in message
news:uAjEK8gcFHA.3864@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>I routinely ran spybot and ad-aware, in addition to my AVG virus checker
>and the on-line virus check with Trend Micro and RAV.
>
> None of them detected any malware.
>
> Then I installed the MS Antispyware program. It immediately found a
> Trojan: iteye, located in c:/windows\system32\notpad.exe . It is shown as
> a high threat level.
>
> Why do all these other programs not detect something as obvious as
> notpad.exe??
>
> --
> Walter
> www.rationality.net
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>