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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
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