Re: c:\windows\system32\netdc.exe
From: Will Denny (willdenny_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/26/04
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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:34:12 +0100
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-- Will Denny MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups "DDM" <DDMara@YaNOSPAMhoo.com> wrote in message news:eX1EG6zcEHA.556@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... > Phil, Carey, Will: > > I appreciate your taking the time to respond. Thank you all very much. > > -- > DDM > > "Phil" <I.fix.probs@for.you> wrote in message > news:%237FeaAzcEHA.3016@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... >> Netdc.exe is related to a virus. I just spent five hours this weekend > trying >> to remove it from relatives machine and I could not get rid of it. Nothing >> touched it or if it did, it soon came back, sometimes as a differernt > name, >> like st.exe or netda.exe or netdb.exe. I could not figure out how to stop > it >> from reloading and found very little info on google or symantecs site > about >> it. See if this helps you(it didn't really help me, we eventually just >> formatted and reinstalled). Sounds like you may have gotten rid of the >> netdc.exe and now the references are just left, so maybe this will help. >> FYI - I did get rid of the virus several times with anti-virus programs > and >> manually, but it kept coming back, not sure how. This computer had the a, > b, >> and c variants. >> > http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.nibu.e.html >> >> DDM wrote: >> > Running Windows XP Home on a Dell Dimension Desktop, all critical >> > updates installed. >> > >> > Recently, whenever I start Windows, right after I enter my password, >> > I get a warning beep. When the Welcome screen disappears, I see the >> > following error message on screen: "Windows cannot find the file >> > c:\windows\system32\netdc.exe." >> > >> > I don't know what this file is, or why it is being called. I ran >> > Webroot Spysweeper and deleted all ad/spyware it found. Then I ran >> > Norton Antivirus and it found nothing. I checked my Startup group and >> > it is empty. Ran Msconfig and inspected my startup settings and all >> > seems normal. I tried to run System Restore to go back to a point >> > before this started happening but System Restore couldn't do it. >> > Finally, I tried starting in Safe Mode. I still get the error. >> > >> > I looked at my other Dell Dimension, which has pretty much the same >> > configuration but is behaving normally, and there is no such file on >> > it, hidden or otherwise. >> > >> > Other than my getting the error message, all seems normal. I'm having >> > no problems with the OS, or with running any software (primarily MS >> > Office 2003). But it's annoying. >> > >> > Does anyone have any idea what this is all about? >> > >> > Thanks in advance. >> >> > > >
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