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[Art]

I have xp sp2 ie6 and McAfee..Did a virus scan and it
found a potentially unwanted file and I quarantined the
file as I did not know what to do. It was a file
names "dsfagent.exe". Does anyone know what this file
is?

 

[Guest]

sorry..bad typing. the file was ""dssagent.exe"

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

It's either a virus or spyware file. Delete it from quarantine.

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| I have xp sp2 ie6 and McAfee..Did a virus scan and it
| found a potentially unwanted file and I quarantined the
| file as I did not know what to do. It was a file
| names "dsfagent.exe". Does anyone know what this file
| is?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

It's an ad-ware.

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=dssagent.exe
http://cexx.org/dssagent.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q296077

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: <[email protected]>

|
| sorry..bad typing. the file was ""dssagent.exe"
|

It is non-viral malware that can be removed.

When in doubt, submit the suspect file to Virus Total --
http://www.virustotal.com/flash/index_en.html
The submission will then be tested against 17 different AV vendor's scanners.

Another way to submit is to send the suspect file to the following email address
scan<at>virustotal.com
{ replace <at> with @ } with only the word SCAN as the subject.

Submissions made to Virus Total will be provided to the the various AV vendors as well.