mshta.exe help.

[Gre P Rozelle]

I have a firewall.
After Visiting a web page. A program called mshta.exe popped up
asking to make connection to the web. I denied it. Is this a virus
or not?

Thank You,

Greg P Rozelle

 

[Mike Burgess]

Greg,

"A program called mshta.exe popped up"

Not a good sign! Did you scan your system for a virus?
Look in your Firewall log - where was it trying to connect to?

AVG 6.0 Anti Virus [freeware]
http://www.grisoft.com

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[H Leboeuf]

Mshta.exe ...filename.hta Adult content dialler
Source:
START-UP APPLICATIONS
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm
The complete list
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_all.php

 

[Gre P Rozelle]

Anyone tell me how in the world part of The Adult content dialler
got downloaded without my permission? I never visted an adult site.
Never clicked yes or no with an activeX. I do use a popup stopper.

Why didn't adaware detect it? It could be because I block the
connection to download the rest of the software.

It happend after I visted this a members site from this
http://members.fortunecity.com/

I did it agian today, all things that poped up was gator. It tried to
sneak install. I wish Microsoft would sue them.


Thank You,

Greg P Rozelle

 

[Greg P Rozelle]

Corrected Post
After reading about mshta.exe
It is a normal file. It had an odd behavior.
After I visited a member site at

www.fortunecity.com
My firewall came up with this.
Mshta.exe is requesting an outgoing connection.
I denied it

However, I tried scanning for viruses. No viruses.
Adware didn’t detect any spy ware. No unusually entries
In all of the start up areas.

I brave myself to try this site again. I noticed
Gator was trying to sneak install.