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Old 01-04-2007, 06:42 AM
SteveL
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Re: Faulting application

I ran several removal tools amd this is my results;

Blacklight from F-secure reports no infections
RootKit revealer reports nothing
MS Malicious software removal tool reports nothing
Ice Sword reports nothing
Prevx reports nothing
Sophos reports nothing
Oversight reports nothing
Hijackthis reports nothing


Spysweeper reports 1 infection
StopZilla reports 1 infection

Thanks again

"GSV Three Minds in a Can" wrote:

> Bitstring <8C657822-986D-45F5-98E3-52C48990A047@microsoft.com>, from the
> wonderful person SteveL <SteveL@discussions.microsoft.com> said
> >I have searched for this file on my system, non found, I searched my registry
> >for the file name, and nothing there.
> >
> >Can someone tell me as to why I am having a faulting app on a non existing
> >file?
> >
> >Application Error Faulting application pprekop.exe, version 4.2.0.172,
> >faulting module ole32.dll, version 5.1.2600.2182, fault address 0x10017bed.

>
> Sounds like you might be infected then, down at the rootkit level.
> Google Is Your Friend - there are several rootkit revealers/removers
> available. I'd personally start with rootkit revealer from sysinternals,
> since that doesn't attempt to fix anything.
>
> /rant on
> The way M$ have constructed Windows (for the benefit of Digital Rights
> Mgmt folks, and virus writing spamming b&stards) it is quite possible to
> hide both files (and folders) and registry keys. Go look at
> HKLM\security with regedit .. see anything? Nope you wont. Now export
> it. Now you see it. However what you see is binary/hex/whatever,
> designed to be hard to search and modify. And you actually have
> permissions for that key - there are probably several on your system
> that you don't even have read access for (unless you are logged on as
> 'SYSTEM').
>
> The 'personal' computer is rapidly becoming more M$'s property than your
> own, except when some trojan/virus/spyware/rootkit has already claimed
> it for itself.
> /end rant
>
> --
> GSV Three Minds in a Can
> 7,053 Km walked. 1,267Km PROWs surveyed. 23.0% complete.
>

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Old 01-04-2007, 06:42 AM