I was checking my win.ini today and noticed the following entries.
[Internal]
Device=ȺºËºÌ̾ÌɾºÉÏÇÌÌǺ½
Install=1066515763
[hkjhk]
nnhjhkj15=1067378634
Any ideas what these are? I searched the web, but didn’t find anything like these. ???
I was checking my win.ini today and noticed the following entries.
[Internal]
Device=ȺºËºÌ̾ÌɾºÉÏÇÌÌǺ½
Install=1066515763
[hkjhk]
nnhjhkj15=1067378634
Any ideas what these are? I searched the web, but didn’t find anything like these. ???
bbfi,
Don’t know if this helps, but you might try searching for the ‘pup’ virus.
Have a look at this link…
http://www.security-forums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8209
Good luck
Walker,
That was one of the links I found on the web and I checked my computer for the ‘pup’ virus in all the locations but nothing showed up. ???
bbfi,
Where none of the comments in that link relavent to your case?. I noticed one of the posters at least had the same ‘nnhjhkj15=’ entry as yours.
Not that I know anything of this personally… sorry
Walker,
The only thing that was the same was -
[hkjhk]
nnhjhkj15=1066661473
I don’t have DDMP*.dll, WinPup.exe files or the following directories C:\Program Files\ddm\0\ or C:\Program Files\Intenet explorer\ADD-INS.
bbfi, did avast! alert you of anything? Did you perform a full scan?
I suggest you delete that lines immediatly…
Technical,
did avast! alert you of anything? Did you perform a full scan?
I did a check with Avast, eScan Antivirus Toolkit Utility, ANTIDOTE for PC Viruses - SuperLite, eTrust EZ Antivirus, and BitDefender Free Edition. My system is clean.
I suggest you delete that lines immediatly...
Did it.
I can really bet your system is clean after all ;D
If you discover something else about this ‘strange’ virus, let us know… 8)
Technical,
I also ran a scan with a² Free Malware Scanner and all was clean.
This scanner can be downloaded at http://forum.a-2.org/viewtopic.php?t=173 with info about it at http://www.a-2.org/en/.
Do you - or anybody else - nows anything more about a² (a squared) Free Malware Scanner?
Does it has a resident (guard) protection?
Could it be used simultaneously with avast?
How does it update?
I did some research on their forum pages and the features could be;
The Background Guard of a² personal has several jobs. Each started program will be scanned and blocked if necessary before it gets active. The IDS (Intrusion Detection System) is always active and protects the operating system. For example, it is able to protect other program-tasks against shutdowns initiated by Trojans. The improper bypassing of desktop firewalls by tunneling through the browser can also be prevented.
The Advanced IDS mode is a component of a² personal which analyses the behavior of all running programs to detect harmful actions. If a program shows a Malware like behavior, the actions will be stopped. You have nearly no configuration work.
Expert users can optional choose to use the System-Firewall of a² personal instead of the Advanced IDS mode. This works similar to common desktop firewalls. But the big difference is, that not only connections to the web are monitored. Also operations inside the operating system and the programs are watched. You can define special rights for each program. For example you can deny a specific program to write an autorun entry to the system registry or deny access to a specific part of the harddisk for another program.
I’m afraid that there is something ‘wrong’ and don’t smell so good in all of this… Do avast users can say something… :o
Technical,
I’m not ‘technical’ enough to know about all the extra features. The free one only does scans for malware. I do not understand the IDS stuff, etc. ???
I found another forum (NTFS) talking about it at http://www.ntfs.org/forum/showthread.php?s=d8bc019953a6acee41b00c8cadf39a51&threadid=40945. Also, Wilders Forum talks about it at http://www.wilderssecurity.com/index.php?board=25;action=display;threadid=16821. Maybe that would shed some light on the subject. :
Thanks bbfi, I’ll do some more research previously…
Take care, thanks for the links
Technical,
a2 is the new name of the free project ‘ANTS’ by Andreas Haak, I used to be a beta tester of it…
a2 has 2 versions, free and personal. Free version (only the on-demmand scanner, no guard included) is already released on 11/25 (More…).
according to the site, the personal version is expected to be released soon…
I hope this could be helpful ;D
bbfi,
how did you write the ‘2’ that small ? ??? ??? ???
thanx in advance ;D
minacross,
how did you write the '2' that small ? ??? ??? ???
I just copied and pasted it from the a² forum. ;D
What is your opinion of a² free? : I know that you get what you pay for
, but there are no other free malware checkers or are there? ???
Anyone else have any opinions for this a² free or other free malware scanners? Thanks in advance.
the only free AT I know was SwatIt http://www.swatit.org which is a very poor one
ANTS was really good. So, we just wait and see how a2 will act :-\
I have just downloaded it… If it does not ‘conflict’ with avast! I could run and post the results (if any ;D).
Wait for the sunny weekend.
Technical,
Anxious to hear what you find out. While browsing a² forum, I read this post http://forum.a-2.org/viewtopic.php?t=47&sid=154cad921f443db2f6652b368009602d. Sounds interesting if possible. :
What exactly? It’s a long post… (it remembers me techie’s ;D and Hornus’ ;D ones). What do you mean exactly?
Maybe, bbfi, you refer to this post of Andreas Haak (Site Admin)
Integration of certain AV programs
Hi,
well, I will let you know about some ideas we can discuss and that will maybe be a way of a powerfull cooperation.
As you all know a² has a pluginable engine. It would be possible to plug in third party engines, too. I simply have to add a “wrapper” that translates the a² flags and commands to the vendor specific ones. This is a big advantage …
I thought about an integration of already installed AV software. That means:
If you have NOD32 installed a² offers you integrate the NOD32 engine into the a² engine. So everytime a² scans a file its automatically scanned by NOD32, too.
This adds more security and helps to make security easy. You only have to activate the scan plugins and you have one common interface to all your installed software that is supported. There are some more benefits:
Of course the direct integration of the already installed engines is not neccessary. You can say what engine a² hsould use. It won’t force you. You can of course use a² and your favorite av program without the integration. and without limitations. I think I said it several times above:
A² is designed as a perfect second line of defense and as an addition that is compatible to as any software as possible.
I’ll take a look. Anyway, there isn´t a plugin for avast! right now.