winis.exe

[Martin]

I noticed this running process and have seen it referred
to in virus discussions. Is this a natural (safe) process
or is it malicious? Thx.

 

[Danny Kile]

I noticed this running process and have seen it referred
to in virus discussions. Is this a natural (safe) process
or is it malicious? Thx.

Symantec show it as part of a virus, chech this:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bropia.l.html

Danny

 

[richwrich]

Check out this site for windows processes
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/Also this post. I found this by entering winis.exe in a
google search. Looks like it is a virus



This is most likely your worm:

Scan and fix these items with HijackThis (use the *fix
checked button after checkmarking them.

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [update] winis.exe

O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [update] winis.exe

Reboot the PC. Go here to scan the file:

winis.exe ---scan this file

Scan it here:
Jotti's malware scan 2.24
»virusscan.jotti.dhs.org/

Copy the results at the end and paste it back here please.
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sycopathman

Member

edit: Wednesday February 2nd, @06:00PM
i update norton antivirus and it found and fixed it.
Must of been a new worm when i first updated and scanned
yesterday it never found it.
the worm was msnj.exe
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