what to do if a new virus/trojan/worm has been found(MANUALLY) in computer?

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Hello,
What should a computer user do if he/she found a bad software manually that
could not be found by many anti-virus(or other security softwares)
softwares? Should this be reported directly to Microsoft? I think I found
the program using a PID 0 and it is not being determined as
virus/software/spyware/(etc). I asked a question two nights ago but received
no answer so I continued to manually searched for the program until tonight.
I used many softwares, Zone alarm(did not report which program it was), Port
Reporter, AAtools or something like that, Spybot, etc. But the only softwar
that gave me the idea was Security Task Manager. I found that the bad
program was svchost.exe.

How did the programmer use the PID 0 for this process when I used
netstat -o? Is there other newsgroup I can ask this question? I would like
to look at the code of this program so that in the future I know what to do
manually.
This is my second post to this newsgroup so sorry if I am asking the wrong
question but you can direct me to the correc newsgroup.
Thank you.
--Leon
 
There is a very helpful virus removal newsgroup you may wish to post to:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.security.virus

Symantec Security Check
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym

Virus Removal Tools
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/tools.list.html

Online Virus Removal Tutorials
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/virusremoval/virusremoval_info_tutorial.html

3 Simple Steps to Insure the Security of Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

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| Hello,
| What should a computer user do if he/she found a bad software manually that
| could not be found by many anti-virus(or other security softwares)
| softwares? Should this be reported directly to Microsoft? I think I found
| the program using a PID 0 and it is not being determined as
| virus/software/spyware/(etc). I asked a question two nights ago but received
| no answer so I continued to manually searched for the program until tonight.
| I used many softwares, Zone alarm(did not report which program it was), Port
| Reporter, AAtools or something like that, Spybot, etc. But the only softwar
| that gave me the idea was Security Task Manager. I found that the bad
| program was svchost.exe.
|
| How did the programmer use the PID 0 for this process when I used
| netstat -o? Is there other newsgroup I can ask this question? I would like
| to look at the code of this program so that in the future I know what to do
| manually.
| This is my second post to this newsgroup so sorry if I am asking the wrong
| question but you can direct me to the correc newsgroup.
| Thank you.
| --Leon
 
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