Virus stored in the Registry?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.registry (More info?)

Export it before deleting or use one or more of the spyware removal tools.

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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"Chris Curzon" wrote:
|I have been working hard to remove spyware/adware from my system.
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| I was just looking in the registry and noticed a very odd reg key.
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| Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE, I find a reg keys
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| 28G#C2L3#9QC9E
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| which is a really odd name considering other keys at this level are named
| "Adelphia", "Adobe", "AOL", "Apache", and so on.
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| Looking into this key, I see a bunch of sub keys with REG_BINARY values
| which have equally incomprehensible names and values. For example, key
| names like
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| 26QG4JD4GM8X#P
| 2896QLH5TT65XK
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| with values that I can't figure out.
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| I am VERY suspicious of this data and want to remove it. I haven't yet.
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| Any thoughts?
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| -- Chris Curzon
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