David,

What I don't understand, is why you would advise anyone
to disable their firewall, as opposed to simply advising them
to give WGET.EXE permission to pass.

Personally, I wouldn't drop my firewall for any reason...

Perhaps you could edify my feeble mind in this regard.

Sid


"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
news:W%01h.917$CT5.108@trnddc02...
> From: "Graham Hazel" <grahamchazel@tiscali.co.uk>
>
> | I'm running online no probs. Suddenly the line becomes disconnected and a
> | new and unknown dialup wants to dial out from my PC.
> |
> | Its called "it_0163" and has an icon of two red lips.
> |
> | Frankly, I dont know if this is spywear or a virus or trojan or wotever.
> |
> | Has anyone else seen this ? I have run my Sophos AV, and Webroot
> | Spyweeper, and Trojanhunter, and nothing warns me that this little program
> | is a danger to my system, or indeed finds it at all. It seems to be
> | completely inoccuous.
> |
> | It lives in...... Documents and Settings> 'Uname'> Local Settings>
> | Temp
> |
> | When I delete it, it seems to disappear for good, and I simply get back onto
> | my Broadband Inet as normal.
> |
> | Nothing unusual occurs again in the current session. Its just the once .
> |
> | However, after shutting it all off overnight, and then powering it all up
> | again in the morning of the next day, it will at some random point re-appear
> | and drop the connction again.
> |
> | Any ideas please ?
> |
> | Is it a virus really and Sophos isnt picking it up ? Or wot ?
> |
> | G
> |
>
>
> Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
> http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
>
> To use this utility, perform the following...
> Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
> Choose; Unzip
> Choose; Close
>
> Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
> { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
>
> NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go
through your
> FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.
>
> C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
> This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal
Mode.
> This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
> The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the
PC.
>
> You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you
can
> download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the
files
> needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode
[F8 key
> during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in
Safe
> Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.
>
> When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive
PDF help
> file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm
>
> Additional Instructions:
> http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm
>
>
> * * * Please report back your results * * *
>
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>