Re: got this trojan mscmsr.dll - don't know where it came from...

From: "David D" <netrate@xxxxxxxxx>

| I am dealing with this issue of a trojan that my Anti-Vir software
| continues to inform me about when I run any spyware programs like
| Lavasoft or Spybot. I delete the file with the Anti-Vir, but it seems
| to keep popping up. I think this is a new one because the google
| search I did on it says 'March 04, 2008'...lucky me.
| So what do I do about it? Right now I am running Anti-Vir full system
| check in Safe mode. The files is located in the Windows/system32
| folder.
| Anybody else have this trojan? Any suggestions? I can't do a system
| restore because I have been instead backing up my hard drive about
| once a month (and it has been close to a month since the last backup,
| so I would lose a month of work).

There are anti virus news groups specifically for this kind of subject matter.
In the Microsoft.* hierarchy the news group is; microsoft.public.security.virus

What anti virus application ?
When you say "my Anti-Vir" do you mean Avira AntiVir ?

You say "Anybody else have this trojan?"
What Trojan ? All you have supplied is the name of a DLL file.

Please provide the name of the infector your anti virus application declared the file
c:\Windows\system32\mscmsr.dll to be infected with.

BTW: System Restore does NOT backup data files. The System Restore functionality only
backs up; EXE, DLL and other OS related files and constructs such as the Registry. It will
not backup or restore MS Office data files, PDF files, etc.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


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