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    Suspicious msnmsgr.exe

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by holymoly, Jan 14, 2011.

  1. holymoly

    holymoly Notebook Geek

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    I was doing some cleanup today, and i noticed something fishy is going on, for one, in CCleaner i have a new startup program msnmsgr.exe, i dont use MSN and never did, and it is in a strange location C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\....\.....\1.3.8.1474\msnmsgr.exe, the folder also contains another file called user32.dll, the "...." are random letters, MD5 or something, both file are hidden. nothing was picked up by MSE and the exe was not running in the task manager, so im just wondering what you guys think about this

    I also got a email from a forum that i havn't used in ages to tell me that im banned there for posting something, seems strange, but my password was like 123456 and the account is of no importance, but it could be related to what i found today

    should i be running more scans with other tools or is it time for me to start change all the passwords and stuff? lol
     
    holymoly, Jan 14, 2011
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  2. RWUK

    RWUK Notebook Evangelist

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    Any Windows executable outside its original location is reason to be suspicious, if not an outright problem. An MD5 is a checksum file used to see if a download is incomplete or corrupt.

    What you describe sounds like virus/malware activity.

    Can you disable it from startup in CCLeaner?
    I'd suggest downloading MBAM free and running a scan in safe mode.
    Malwarebytes

    That sucks MSE didn't pick up on it.
     
    RWUK, Jan 14, 2011
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