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Jess
Has anyone here encountered this file, xsm.exe? Is this a virus?
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null
What do your antivirus scanners say about it? Have you uploaded the
file for av scanning?
Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
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Tracer
no it's not a virus, it came from the program Cygwin with XFree86. Look hereJess said:
http://www.google.de/search?q=cache...ta.ca/~bmw/cygwin.html+xsm.exe&hl=de&ie=UTF-8
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Tracer
that's correct. but i've understand, if this file is a virus, not that it
could be infected
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null
that's correct. but i've understand, if this file is a virus, not that it
could be infected
Your sentence is unintelligible. Please try to be clear.
Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
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Tracer
sorry about my english, i will try to learn.
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FromTheRafters
that's correct. but i've understand, if this file is a virus, not that it
could be infected
Many viruses exist as infected legitimate files, in fact the
host file is needed for that type of virus to execute.
You may be confusing the "worm" with the "virus".
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Nick FitzGerald
Tracer said:
And you know that the xsm.exe the OP was asking about is precisely one of the
xsm.exe files that have been shipped or built with XFree86 under Cygwin how?
In general, filenames alone are somewhere between exceeding poor and utterly
worthless for diagnosing malware, and as a filename is all that the OP
provided, your answer is therefore somewhere between useless and harmful.
If the OP has now stopped monitoring replies in this newsgroup because of
a naive (lack of) understanding of your reply, then you may well have harmed
her understanding of both whatever event prompted the question and of the
broader issues of relevance when diagnosing and reporting suspicious things
on her computer...