Hello everyone! I’m new to this forum so nice to meet you all!
Anyway right down to the point, I have one instance of conime.exe when I was downloading something through BitTorrent. I did indeed heard that more than one instances of conime.exe or paired up with bfghost.exe could be fatal to the PC. However, I heard that conime.exe runs whenever any Asian language happens to be present in the windows. In my case, the file I was downloading in BitTorrent was in Japanese. Could this be bad? I only have one conime.exe in the Task Manager and nothing else. Oh and I’m using Firefox.
Immediate feedback will be appreciated!
Edit: Ah yes forgot to mention. Pretty obvious but I got the torrent from a Japanese site.
Alright, I downloaded SuperAntiSpyware (I already have Malwarebytes to compliment Avast! 5.0) and did a scan with these two not too long ago. Nothing was found so that’s good so far. Going to go on safe mode later on after I have my rest. I will give the final log afterwards.
Then to be sure what it is you have upload the executable to virustotal.com or http://virusscan.jotti.org/
and then report back. You could also download Threat Expert Memory Scanner and give that a whirl to establish something is trying to hide its precence. Downlaod the tool and read the info via this page link:
Info: http://www.threatexpert.com/memoryscanner.aspx
bfghost.exe is BFGhost, a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) and it’s dangerous.
If you haven’t been using it remotely and find it on your computer, a hacker could be using it to take control of your machine and could spy on you.
And also BitTorrent is very unsafe to use, because there are a lot of viruses, adware, and spyware when using a P2P file sharing software.
Nothing found while scanning in safe mode. I already check with that virus scan site polonus gave me and nothing was found. I’m going to try that threatexpert program later. Although note I don’t have bfghost.exe or that editmm.exe on my computer or Task Manager; just conime.exe by itself and where it’s suppose to be found.
Edit: Okay just checked with that threatexpert polonus suggested me and nothing was found. I guess that means I’m in good standing?
If you are and have been performing considerable SafeHex and be working a good scripting protection (like Firefox with NoScript and RequestPolicy add-ons installed, and a good hosts file to thwart off undesirable hosts, you can minimize the risks considerably. Remember in the light of how the content copyright industry views P2P-ing and the malware risk involved, the security of BitTorrent is questionable and regarding forseeable developments for the future (Acta laws being brought in globally) that situation will only worsen (for the end-user that is), be fully aware of these facts and do not play Russian Roulette, there are other ways than file-sharing techniques ;D