vm_sti.exe

Viruses and worms
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Hey there.

I recently bought a new webcam, though as it turned out the driver installation on the cd puts a file called vm_sti.exe in the WINDOWS folder, which after a short while starts causing a lot of trouble.

Apart from the symptoms described by others (see the link above) - ie it starts taking up 100% CPU resources so the machine slows down, and it’s not possible to perform online virus scanning - (in stead I could see from the firewall log that the machine started downloading a lot of data from some other server where it was definately NOT supposed to download anything from) - I also found out from the firewall trafic log that the firewall was blocking the AVAST updater, even though it looked in the applications menu like it was allowing it.

-The troublesom webcam driver can be downloaded at: http://download.sandberg.it/support/webcam/13331_drv_all_dec_04.exe

The info on vm_sti.exe I’ve been able to find on the web - apart from people’s experiences with it as stated on the page I link to above - is sparse and can be generalized into most pages simply asuming it is safe, since they don’t have any evidence to the contrary…

-And since AVAST didn’t detect it when it came in either, I take it that the Avast crew simply haven’t been made aware of this file yet.

And so I’d like to raise the awareness.

Apart from that: If a newer AVAST update has taken this malware into account I’d really like to know about it, because until then (obviously - last time I had to wipe the HD with DBAN to get rid of it) I don’t want to install the webcam driver on my PC again - meaning I can’t use my webcam. :frowning:

So if and when the latest AVAST update can get rid of the malware and repair the webcam driver I hope someone will let me know…

Or if someone knows of an alternative webcam driver that’ll work in stead.

Thanx in advance.

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There doesn’t seem to be any malware in this package (and no other antivirus detects anything in there either).
The problems might simply be caused by a bug in the driver (for example).

EDIT: typo fixed

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Hmmm… Just seems striking then that so many other users all report identical symptoms associated with this file - And particularly suspicious those symptoms that has to do with disabling online virus scan and (in my case) disabling antivirus update.

Of the camera, you mean? - I don’t know what a “drive” is, unless you mean my harddrive - and apart from the symptoms encountered when installing the webcam I haven’t had any problems at all (not with my previous webcam either), so a bug in my HD don’t strike me as likely to be the case.

???

…Either way I’d still like to know it in case someone has an idea of an alternative webcam driver I could use.

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Oops, sorry - should have been “driver”.

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lol. Ok.

Still: Anyone have an idea of a different driver that might work as an alternative? - Or where I might find one?