Executable file w/ Trojan Horse

[bookie]

My Trend Micro software identified "avtmd.exe" as having
a trojan horse that was identified on 1/1/2009 in the process
of doing a full computer scan. My Vista software seems to
work O.K. The file was quarantined, and, when I tried to
clean it, it said that it couldn't be done. They recommended
waiting to some future security update.

Does anyone know what this file is supposed to do? Is it
possible to go to the Microsoft site and download this
executable again and delete the original version that is now
corrupted?

 

[Richard Urban]

Before you go about trying to download a bad file why don't you just type
the file name in Google search, as I just did.

Then you will see that you DO NOT want to download this file.

 

[bookie]

Hi Richard,

Thank you! I use Google most of the time, but I didn't think of it in
this case. I went there, and I was surprised about all of the links
to the executable in question.

I activated my Trend Micro via the icon, and I deleted this file.

Regards,

Bookie

 

[Richard Urban]

You can use Google to check up on almost any file or extension. In most
cases you will be able to determine what the file/ext is for. If a file does
NOT get any hits it is likely a new file that is part of a malware package.

 

[bookie]

I printed out your response, and it was really very valuable to me.
I guess that I sometimes get blinders on and can't really see things
like you had.

Best regards,