[pchelpers] hybris

(this post is only for people interested in more detail; the 
previous post had removal instructions)

Hi Billy

> The reason I asked, is this I run AVG, spybot, adaware, trend micro and one
> or two other web based programs for keeping your PC clean.

Do you have any spyware inoculators? (SpywareBlaster and 
SpywareGuard)

> Today, all reprted a clean PC, except Trend, it told me I had a worm called
> Hybris B..........non of the others did. 
> Even Kaspersky didn't have it listed in their
> free removal tools, so I reckoned it couldn't be what Trend told me. 

Maybe there was just a registry entry left from an old infection. 
Did you run Kaspersky's online scan? I've had more false 
positives with Trend than any other scanner, but it could be that 
this time there really was something on your computer that the 
others didn't find. It's very unlikely though because it's an old 
worm from 2001:
http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=238
http://www.viruslist.com/en/VirusList.html?page=0&mode=1&id=4112&key=00001000130000100044
http://www.viruslist.com/en/viruses/encyclopedia?chapter=153280800

> I ran
> everything again, only Trend found it again, but this time only one infected
> file, as against two the first time??? I told trend to clean, it couldn't,
> so I told it to delete file and it did. My puter is the same as it was
> before, nothing has stopped working and now Trend reports the same as the
> other 5 online and PC based programs I run..........................I HATE
> PUTERS THEY HAVE LESS BRAINS THAN A 5 YEAR OLD

Well, looks like this time the AV was stupid, not your puter, and 
not only because it can't make up its mind as to how much malware 
it's detecting. It's insane asking users whether to clean/ 
disinfect or delete when the malware is sitting there by itself 
and not in a text document or other file that the user might want 
to try to salvage.

Ek


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