Annoying popup lately with Internet.exe

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Rob Stevens

I am not sure what this is, i don't know if anyone else is having this
problem.
Lately i have been having this problem with a file called Internet.exe,
every
time i launch any file or program, this program runs in a shell and i have
to
kill the process. Its not causing any problems except that its very
annoying.
I did a search for the name on the web and all i found was the name for a
virus,
i don't think this is a virus, this is the content of the file.

<html>
<head>
<title>uoio.com</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="1,*" border=0>
<frame name="top" src="/t.php?cat=general" scrolling=no frameborder=0
noresize framespacing=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>
<frame src="/search.php" scrolling="auto" framespacing=0 marginwidth=0
marginheight=0 noresize>
</frameset>
<noframes>
This page requires frames.
</noframes>
</html>

Does anyone have anything similar to this? Thanks a lot.
 
Rob said:
I am not sure what this is, i don't know if anyone else is having this
problem.
Lately i have been having this problem with a file called
Internet.exe, every
time i launch any file or program, this program runs in a shell and i
have to
kill the process. Its not causing any problems except that its very
annoying.
I did a search for the name on the web and all i found was the name
for a virus,
i don't think this is a virus, this is the content of the file.

<html>
<head>
<title>uoio.com</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="1,*" border=0>
<frame name="top" src="/t.php?cat=general" scrolling=no
frameborder=0
noresize framespacing=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>
<frame src="/search.php" scrolling="auto" framespacing=0
marginwidth=0
marginheight=0 noresize>
</frameset>
<noframes>
This page requires frames.
</noframes>
</html>

Does anyone have anything similar to this? Thanks a lot.
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Searching for "Internet.exe" does in fact bring up rather a lot of links
indicating that this is the magiccall virus.

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/internet/
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.magiccall.html

If you do not have a full-featured antivirus installed (>sigh< why
not?), then start cleaning up your computer with TrendMicro's Sysclean
as follows:

TrendMicro's Sysclean is an extensive antivirus tool which has the
advantage of not needing to be installed. It requires two parts - the
scanning engine and the virus pattern files.

1. Create a new folder on your Desktop or the C: drive named something
useful like "Sysclean".
2. Go here and download the two parts of the program to that folder:

http://www.trendmicro.com/download/dcs.asp - Sysclean
http://www.trendmicro.com/download/pattern.asp - virus pattern files

The pattern files will be zipped - extract them with your unzipper (like
WinZip) or if you have XP, you can just open the folder. You need to
put the extracted files in the Sysclean folder you made.

3. Restart your computer in Safe Mode. Get into Safe Mode by repeatedly
tapping the F8 key as the computer is starting up to get to the proper
menu.
4. Go to the Sysclean folder you made and double-click on sysclean.com.
Start the scan. After the scan is finished, look at the log. You may
need to make a note of where any viruses were found if they were not
able to be removed so you can manually delete them.

After your initial run with Sysclean, you should be able to install a
full-featured antivirus, update its definitions, and do a thorough scan
in Safe Mode.

Malke
 
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