My friend has just told me she found a "little blue 'star'" that popped up on her taskbar, and the caption reads to click to download "winxp endsoct10". I just checked with Microsoft.com and can't find the item in a search query. I suspect it's a virus. Where can I find more info on this "winxp endsoct10" ?
And my friend can't find the little bugger in her ADD/REMOVE programs list. So how does she be rid of this potential virus bug?
2006-08-22 10:01:58 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Goto www.ewido.com and run the free version, it should get rid of it.
Here are some other free ones.
Spybots search and Destroy http://www.download.com/3000-8022-10122137.html?tag=pao
adaware se> http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=lst-0-1
http://www.webroot.com/land/freescan.php
a-squared Free> http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_frame.asp
http://housecall65.trendmicro.com/
X -Cleaner Micro Edition scan http://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
http://www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Spywareguard too.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/
2006-08-22 10:08:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure you have the right file name? A search didn't bring up anything about that. As a true computer geek I never heard of that file before. I can only think the file name is spelled wrong or one of the applications your friend has loaded is doing an autoupdate of itelf.
2006-08-22 10:11:01 · answer #2 · answered by Hitchhiker90 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I checked on symantec'ssite and found nothing. Microsoft doesn't use a blue star for downloads not sure what this could be..if she didn't download it she should be okay....but be safe have them update their anti-virus and scan again..plus scan with a good spyware as well.
best of luck to them.
2006-08-22 10:26:16 · answer #3 · answered by ♥ just_me ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The little blue star appears when MS has detected a pirated XP OS.
2006-08-22 10:08:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
are you sure this isn't a reminder of sorts and the message ends on october 10th? XP probably will not function after 10/10 due to no registration.
2006-08-22 10:08:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like it's some kind of malware. Have your friend download a program like adaware or spybot: search and destroy. That should get rid of it.
2006-08-22 10:07:55 · answer #6 · answered by Archangeleon 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Right click it and see if you can delete it. Try spy wear insted of virus check.
2006-08-22 10:09:42 · answer #7 · answered by Questions&Answers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-26 23:31:23 · answer #8 · answered by cutter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah its another XP bug
Check this out
http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index?link=&sid=396545664&more=&s=-answer_count&cp=3&tp=90
2006-08-29 02:45:06 · answer #9 · answered by Ω Nookey™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you explain by adding some in your question
2006-08-30 08:26:13 · answer #10 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋