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Pee Wiglet
I'd be grateful for help with this.
I have NOD32 running on Windows XP. It's set to automatic update, and
it updates at least once daily.
Earlier this afternoon I re-booted and when Windows opened NOD32 told
me it had found 2 viruses. Rather stupidly I didn't write down the
names, but simply clicked on "delete". Both warning boxes closed
immediately, but another box (not a warning box) was left with a line
or so of apparently random type at the top. Within the random type,
though, I noticed a sentence that said something like: "...shit that I
had to put in here, " - something like that.
I've just run a virus scan with NOD32 and when it was over the screen
showed that the program was unable to open about 70 files. There's a
line of text re: each file, which says (to take one example):
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB839645$\shell32.dll - (error opening) access
denied [4]
There are about 70 of these, all (except 2) referring to the same
location as far as:
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstall but they're all a little different after
that.
On completing the scan, NOD32 says at the bottom of the screen:
"Notes.
[4] file cannot be open. It is being exclusively used by another
application or operating system."
At the same time - presumably not by coincidence - I've had what
purport to be Windows messages telling me that spyware activity has
been detected on my PC/network (the PC is connected to one other PC,
but the other PC hasn't been switch on for a couple of months) and
inviting me to d/load software. I haven't done.
This sounds wrong to me. Can anyone please tell me what might be
happening, and what I could do about it?
Many thanks for any help.
PW
I have NOD32 running on Windows XP. It's set to automatic update, and
it updates at least once daily.
Earlier this afternoon I re-booted and when Windows opened NOD32 told
me it had found 2 viruses. Rather stupidly I didn't write down the
names, but simply clicked on "delete". Both warning boxes closed
immediately, but another box (not a warning box) was left with a line
or so of apparently random type at the top. Within the random type,
though, I noticed a sentence that said something like: "...shit that I
had to put in here, " - something like that.
I've just run a virus scan with NOD32 and when it was over the screen
showed that the program was unable to open about 70 files. There's a
line of text re: each file, which says (to take one example):
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB839645$\shell32.dll - (error opening) access
denied [4]
There are about 70 of these, all (except 2) referring to the same
location as far as:
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstall but they're all a little different after
that.
On completing the scan, NOD32 says at the bottom of the screen:
"Notes.
[4] file cannot be open. It is being exclusively used by another
application or operating system."
At the same time - presumably not by coincidence - I've had what
purport to be Windows messages telling me that spyware activity has
been detected on my PC/network (the PC is connected to one other PC,
but the other PC hasn't been switch on for a couple of months) and
inviting me to d/load software. I haven't done.
This sounds wrong to me. Can anyone please tell me what might be
happening, and what I could do about it?
Many thanks for any help.
PW