c:/windows/sys.exe??

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From: David (conner_joel_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/15/04


Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:19:08 -0700

After a viral/trojan infection by irc/backdoor and downloader.funii (maybe) i
have had a program called sys.exe popping up in my firewall trying to access
the internet. What first struck me as odd is that windows is in small
letters and all other references seen during a virus scan are in caps. And
of course why would the sys need to connect to the internet. Any way, any
idea what virus causes this file to appear, can i just delete it? My virus
program healed the two trojans and removed two other .exe files that were
popping up in my firewall. Also, i can not get a toolbar to work since this
happened. I checked the settings in IE6 and they are fine. Thanks



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