What does eato.exe do?

[Dagger]

What does "eato.exe" do and where does it come from ?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Dagger,

What does "eato.exe" do and where does it come from ?

Um, nothing good, rest assured. It's a trojan - a randomly named virus.
Removal instructions:
http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#trojan

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Dagger" <[email protected]>

| What does "eato.exe" do and where does it come from ?
|

Chances are it is malware.

Please submit "eato.exe" to Virus Total --
http://www.virustotal.com/flash/index_en.html
The submission will then be tested against 18 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.

Please post back the EXACT results.

 

[M.L.]

| What does "eato.exe" do and where does it come from ?

Chances are it is malware.

Please submit "eato.exe" to Virus Total --
http://www.virustotal.com/flash/index_en.html
The submission will then be tested against 18 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.

Please post back the EXACT results.

The user might need to zip the file first since many email servers
won't handle a bare exe file.

 

[Heirloom]

With a little Google effort, the following was uncovered:
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Um, nothing good, rest assured. It's a trojan - a randomly named virus.
Removal instructions:
http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#trojan

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
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A hearty thanks and credit to Mr. Rick Rogers, MS-MVP.
Heirloom, old and who you gonna call