Re: svchost.exe infected?

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From: Jan Hyde (StellaDrinker_at_REMOVE.ME.uboot.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:38:19 +0100

"EnigmaZ" <EnigmaZ@discussions.microsoft.com>'s wild
thoughts were released on Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:57:04 -0700
bearing the following fruit:

>Hello...first off thank you very much in advance, to everyone who replies
>and/or tries to help out :)
>
>Norton has been popping up its detected a virus... Backdoor.EggDrop
>
>The file infected is svchost.exe, i know this is a system critical file,
>which is why Norton doesnt have "access to the file" i'm assuming, so Norton
>is useless. I've tried everything I can think of. My friend tells me to
>delete svchost.exe, but i'm not sure that would be great for a critical file
>;)
>
>If anyone can help me out or anything here please let me know, this is kind
>of my last restort :(
>

Have you ran any spyware detection programs?

Jan Hyde (VB MVP) 

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