Re: What is Backdoor.Winbach as reported by eTrust Pest Patrol scan?
- From: "Maurice N ~ MVP" <maurice@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:16:42 -0500
This link at MS is a database of DLL files for MS Windows as well as other programs.
DLL Help Database http://support.microsoft.com/dllhelp/
DSCAN16 & DSCAN32 are not Windows or MS dlls. Delete them. Let them sit in your Recycle Bin for a while. Then rerun your antivirus.
Turn off your antivirus If and when you run another antivirus utility, and any malware detector.
Here's one free virus-cleanup tool to use, even though it will involve time and effort. I suggest you get & run SYSCLEAN from Trendmicro.
See PA Bear's notes on Sysclean from TrendMicro.
Scanning with SYSCLEAN Robear's way
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=10610
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Maurice N
MVP Windows - Shell / User
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Michael wrote:
> I have XP sp2 running on my Compaq Presario M2105US notebook.
>
> RoadRunner provides my Internet connection and Time Warner also
> provides a suite of virus, firewall, spyware programs from Computer
> Associates. eTrust Pest Patrol is one of those programs and when I
> ran it just a while ago it indicated that I had "Backdoor.Winbach"
> and two files were singled out C:\WINDOWS.dscan16.dll and
> C:\WINDOWS.dscan32.dll
>
> When I went to the CA website to research removing this thing, it
> gave a long list of running processes that I was supposed to kill
> (none of them were running on my system as far as I could tell), a
> longer list of DLL's that I was supposed to unregister (over my head)
> and a long list of file I was supposed to remove (none of them
> existed when I searched for them).
>
> So is this a real threat or is it some sort of false alarm or what?
> If I do indeed have some sort of Backdoor trojan horse or whatever,
> won't my firewall alert me to someone trying to contact the program?
> Can I safely delete just the dscan16.dll and dscan32.dll files, or
> will that have an adverse effect on other aspects of my computer.
>
> In short, is this anything to worry about?
>
> Michael
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