''eplorer'' virus? trojan? Not according to Norton
Thursday, July 24, 2003 at 4:05 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dustin
(4 messages posted)
I cut my computer on the other day & as soon as windows loaded the dial-up connection
popped up wanting me to connect. It's never done this before so I did a little piddling
and found out a new program was starting up at start up called "eplorer"(not mispelled).
It doesnt show up on the ctrl-alt-del box so I cant shut it down that route. It does
show up with spybot(tools-tasks running, not spyware search) but it won't allow me
to kill it either. It cant be deleted from the windows/system folder because it's
"in use by windows". I've run regcleaner & removed it from the startup list only
to have it reappear 5 min. later. It shows up in regcleaner as "winsock2 driver"
under program & "eplorer.exe" under filename in the startup list. Here's the really
annoying part, I figured since I couldnt get rid of it through these programs I would
tackle it in the registry editor. But when I open the editor it pops up on the screen
for maybe 3 seconds then closes, so that route seems hopeless. I researched a bit
& found something about a trojan that runs "eplorer" but it also lists several other
files that are installed & those files are not on my comp. I ran Norton(with all
updated definitions) & it showed up nothing, so I ran an online virus scanner & an
online trojan scanner which both came up nothing. So basically I was wondering if
anybody has any idea what this could be & also if anyone could suggest a good freeware
registry editor. Im thinking that if it is "evil" & keeping me from running windows
regedit(which seems to be the case), maybe a second party editor would be able to
get around it and allow me to delete the key. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated
because I'm at a loss here.
Thanks~~Dustin~~
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