[bcab] Re: Is Win32.autorun.aiv spyware, as spybot picked it up when I checked?

Hi Alex from what I was able to find out using google, this is worse than 
spyware, it is a trojan 
virus.
According to the information in one discussion forum, quote

"Description
Win32.AutoRun.aiv copies an executable file into the system directory, starts 
itself as a service 
"DE5BD8A7 ", "SYS1", "SYS", "SYS3" and restarts Windows without giving the user 
a possibility to 
cancel that process. It also connects to its malicious website and downloads 
additional 
executables."

This sounds like potentially very serious threat.  Therefore I would definitely 
tell Spybot to fix 
it if I were you, and also give your computer a full up to date virus scan, and 
check your firewall 
status carefully.

HTH - Leon Gilbert
Editor, www.vipnews.org.uk

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander Shannon" <alexacts2v4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 7:31 PM
Subject: [bcab] Is Win32.autorun.aiv spyware, as spybot picked it up when I 
checked?


Hi all,

I asked a similar question some time ago, but got the name of the problem
program wrong.  I thought it ended  in .av but in fact it actually ends
.aiv.  My question is, is this spyware or not, as I don't want to delete it
if I need it.

Thank you all in advance for any advice you can give.


Alexander Shannon

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