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Weird things popping up on my computer...
2004-06-03, 11:40 AM #1
Yeah, it's strange. I get a folder under C:\Program Files called 'hide two save' and in it an executable called active skip.exe. It runs itself and tries to access the Internet (ZoneAlarm catches it) and I find that going Task Manager --> End Process and then deleting the folder does the trick, but does anybody know what it is, why it's there and what it's doing?

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2004-06-03, 11:50 AM #2
whats it called in the tasklist?


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2004-06-03, 1:36 PM #3
Virus? Worm? Spyware?

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2004-06-03, 1:38 PM #4
delete it. If you didn't put it there (and windows obviously didn't) then it shouldn't be there.

It doesn't sound like anything that a legit program would install.



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2004-06-03, 1:50 PM #5
This is what we call spyware. Run and update Adaware. Now.

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D E A T H
2004-06-03, 5:26 PM #6
... And Spybot. Using only one of them will only give you half the protection of using both.

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2004-06-03, 6:14 PM #7
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by A_Big_Fat_CoW:
... And Spybot. Using only one of them will only give you half the protection of using both.

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Spybot doesn't get rid of browser hijackers a lot of the time, or BHO's for that matter. This one needs adaware.

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D E A T H
2004-06-03, 6:16 PM #8
Yeah but still scan it with Spybot I mean it can't hurt anything now can it.

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2004-06-04, 4:14 AM #9
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by MechWarrior:
Yeah but still scan it with Spybot I mean it can't hurt anything now can it.

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It can sometimes...it kept restoring spyware that AdAware was removing for me.

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D E A T H
2004-06-04, 6:53 AM #10
I've done lots of research in this area and all the 'experts' say that you should run Spybot first, then run AdAware...

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2004-06-04, 7:00 AM #11
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sarn_Cadrill:
I've done lots of research in this area and all the 'experts' say that you should run Spybot first, then run AdAware...

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2004-06-04, 8:54 AM #12
Its punishment for having a girlfriend.

Damn you.

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2004-06-04, 9:25 AM #13
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by clan ruthervain:
Its punishment for having a girlfriend.

Damn you.

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It possible that God is trying to get you off the computer to find a girlfriend.

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2004-06-04, 10:46 AM #14
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sarn_Cadrill:
I've done lots of research in this area and all the 'experts' say that you should run Spybot first, then run AdAware...

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Never heard that. Where did you hear this btw? *curious*

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D E A T H
2004-06-04, 11:32 AM #15
I read the title as "Weird things pooping on my computer"

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2004-06-04, 12:40 PM #16
It was me trying to access your pr0n collection.

But I failed... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited June 04, 2004).]
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2004-06-04, 12:59 PM #17
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by DogSRoOL:
It was me trying to access your pr0n collection.

But I failed... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited June 04, 2004).]</font>


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Doing a search for "photoed" (for MS's Photo Editor) on my friend's computer dug up a lot of his pr0n archives. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/redface.gif]

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