Simviation Forum - FSX Spotter under utilities page 2.

Feb 28^th, 2009 at 12:30pm

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Just wanted to let everyone know that this file may contain a Trojan.SpamThru virus and the risk is high. The virus does part of the following:

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2006-111716-3107-99&tabid=2

1. Redirects spam through the compromised computer.

2. Overwrites the hosts file in order to prevent access to several security and antivirus Web sites or automatic updates to antivirus software:

I downloaded the file from another site and Norton said the same thing.

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Reply #1 - Feb 28^th, 2009 at 12:41pm

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Could be a false alert, there have been 1400 downloads and nothing said yet, sometimes these false alerts can happen with some Virus protection software.

This will be looked into. Thanks for the concern and heads up. Wink

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Reply #2 - Feb 28^th, 2009 at 12:50pm

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Thanks for the reply. I know that some virus software picks up a certain thing and says that it is infected, so that is why I said possible. I am not going to use the file because it came up again when I downloaded from another site. If it does contain some spam, I'd rather be safe as I get enough spam as it is. Thanks again. Gary

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Reply #3 - Feb 28^th, 2009 at 12:56pm

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I just checked it out with AVG and it came back clean, but I'm still going to have another Mod check it out just in case. Wink

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Reply #4 - Feb 28^th, 2009 at 1:16pm

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I scanned it with McAfee and it came back with a trojan named Generic!Artemis. We'll have to have pete take a look...

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Reply #5 - Feb 28^th, 2009 at 2:49pm

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Pete take a look and pete scanned with AVG - again nothing --- BUT!! I don't take risks with user downloads so I have zapped the file.

1 unhappy Simviation user = 1 unhappy pete

Thanks for the report .... Much appreciated! Cool

Thanks guys!!

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Reply #6 - Mar 1^st, 2009 at 8:04am

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When I saw this thread I went to remove FSX spotter from add or remove programs and could not remove it. I then hit start/explore and under Microsoft games was another file called Mocrosoft games, included 2 drop downs, Microsoft FSX/FSX spotter. (Mocrosoft is the actual spelling.) I deleted the FSX spotter and now the other two files read as empty. However when try to delete them, all kinds of files start deleting from these apparently empty folders, so I canceled the delete. Any ideas on how to safely get rid of this? AVG shows no virus. Thanks... Steve.

Edit: All fixed now, I forgot that I could just retreave it from recycle bin if there was a problem. Oops!

« Last Edit: Mar 1^st, 2009 at 10:36am by Steve M »

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Reply #7 - Mar 1^st, 2009 at 2:51pm

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Steve, I was going to suggest you don't use the 'uninstaller' if it is doing strange things.

If it was mine I would just right click delete. There are several free registry cleaners (CCleaner for example) that I would also run.

Sorry if any trouble was experienced. Believe me we really try to avoid problem files like the plague!!

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Reply #8 - Mar 2^nd, 2009 at 8:31pm

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Thanks for your reply Pete. I was just afraid to delete something I wasn't sure about, turns out it was just an ID10T error. Thanks again.

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Reply #9 - Mar 2^nd, 2009 at 8:34pm

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pete wrote on Feb 28^th, 2009 at 2:49pm:

Pete take a look and pete scanned with AVG - again nothing --- BUT!! I don't take risks with user downloads so I have zapped the file.

1 unhappy Simviation user = 1 unhappy pete

Thanks for the report .... Much appreciated! Cool

Thanks guys!!

Great work Pete. Smiley

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