Re: mshta.exe scans the whole disc
- From: Art <null@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:37:50 GMT
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:08:54 +0200, Anders Eriksson <andis59@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>>>Whenever I open Add/Remove Program in Control Panel the program MSHTA.EXE
>>>will start to scan the whole hard drive (C:).
>>>How do I make it NOT scan or at least only scan specific directories?
>>
>> Try htastop:
>>
>> http://www.nsclean.com/htastop.html
>>
>
>I did run it and it made no change. MSHTA.EXE still runs and scans the
>whole disc.
>
>> Have you used a good up to date antivirus scanner? Spyware
>> scanners? Something is wrong. And there are malwares that screw
>> around with mshta.exe
>>
>I have Norman antivirus, Microsoft AntiSpyware. I run Ad-Aware and Spybot
>S&D and SpywareBlaster once a week (.a bit paranoid maybe.)
Not paranoid at all :) Pays to be alert. I'm going to suggest running
a more powerful av scanner, but before that, you might check the
folder location of mshta. Sometimes a false one is located in a
different folder. Here's what's on my Win 2K sp4
c:\winnt\system32 24,576 Aug 29, 2002
c:\winnt\system32\dllcache same as above
c:\winnt\ServicePackFiles\I386 29,968 June 19, 2003
Here's a paste of instructions:
*********************************************************
The following procedure will give you a on-demand scan
with a clean/delete capability using the Kaspersky scan
engine and the extra defs:
Download mwav.exe from here:
http://www.spywareinfo.dk/download/mwav.exe
Allow it to extract the files to c:\Kaspersky
Next, download wget.exe from here:
http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/#download
And copy it to c:\Kaspersky
Use Notepad to create the following batch file:
@echo off
cls
echo -----------------------------------------------
echo Updating using updates1 ftp site
echo -----------------------------------------------
wget -N ftp://updates1.kaspersky-labs.com/updates_x/*.avc
wget -N ftp://updates1.kaspersky-labs.com/updates_x/avp.*
echo -----------------------------------------------
echo Updating completed!
echo -----------------------------------------------
Save the batch file as update.bat
copy it to c:\Kaspersky
Now run c:\Kaspersky\update.bat
Then run c:\Kaspersky\mwavscan
*****************************************************
Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
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