c:\FAUXVIRUS\carney_ride.exe

Since when... Who said that? what makes you think that?

 

The reply of Symantec has been erased because it was considered as personal but there has been no analysis done. They said they were unable to provide assistance with Virus/Spyware related issues. I can not do more.

 

Lots of links if you search apart from those above:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071111003914AAbsHnD
http://spywarefiles.prevx.com/RRAFAA20650/PUZZLE.EXE.html
http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?t=85516
http://spywarefiles.prevx.com/spywarefiles.asp?FXC=HFCI10495894

There appears to be a real "faux" virus Ie fake joke virus round and about

There has been attention given to some new launcher virus at WoW forums

There is a website hxxp://www.faux virus.com
there is a fake virus pointing to some fake anti malware app

DId we try CSI from Px ?

I had to edit previous post as I got lost in me own bum
Sorry

 

Hello. I´m new on this forum.
I have the same situation as well and im a bit lost: My Norton ANtivirus detects a file "c/cFauxvirus/Carny_ride.exe" on its quickscan mode but does not identify it as a threat, however it shows some "unknown detection action" messages during the scan, which always ends on that fauxvirus file.
I scanned my pc with AVG, spybot and ad-aware but they didnt detect anything unusual.
Also scanned the machine with panda online and used cCleaner to clean the registry but everything seems to be fine except that it takes a bit too long to shutdown...i am not an expert on computers.
Also i cannot find that file even activating "show hidden files and folders" or looking for it with the windows search utility.
Is this a virus? is it a joke? Why i cannot find it?
Thanks in advance to all for your help.

 

I have the same exact problem of symantec antivirus professional scanning this file at the end of a quick scan. But I can't find it or index it with desktop search, or see it running in task manager/HTL/startup programs etc.
I'm sending an email detailing this to symantec (has anyone else speciffically done this and got anywhere) I will post any response I get.

 

Same symptoms. On my system it turned out to be Backdoor.Agent.B. I got a program from symantec

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2004-072116-2828-99&tabid=2

and was able to remove it. Scan then worked.

 

Can u give some more details?

Thanks

 

I think Symantec's scanning of the file path C:\FAUXVIRUS\carney_ride.exe is a bug (in the definition/of the AV engine); it might never really existed . Also, nobody mentioned the version of their Norton AV or Symantec Corporate AV.

I don't know if there is really a carney_ride.exe program. However, a PE file named carny_ride.exe exists (as Longboard said). It is a joke program detected by Symantec as Joke.Train and by Mcafee as Joke-IconScroll.

thanatos

 

Exactly my thoughts.

I have PMed Mike to have a look here but no comments by him so far.

 

Oswald2 created a thread regarding carney_ride.exe at the Lavasoft Hijackthis Forum but up to this time there's no reply from a helper.

Who's Mike?

thanatos

 

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1200096&postcount=4

 

Hi.
I did a Norton AV 2007 QuickScan and saw the same fauxvirus path.
But I also paused QuickScan frequently and saw many more spyware-ish .exe and .Lnk files.
Just curious if any of you are seeing those.
The .Lnk files Norton was Quickscanning were on my Desktop page and I am not seeing any icons pointing to any of those programs. So I am thinking like some of you who believe Norton is scanning for the paths and not the actual files.
I also ran the F-secure online scan and it found nothing.
Thanks for reading.

 

I think it might be the actual reason.

I have seen some spyware scanners showing file names/ malware names while performing a quick scan. It,s diffenerent from showing the actual files being scanned.

Hmmm... seems i have to download a trial of Norton to see.

 

I think it,s no more a mystery.

I installed a trial of NAV 2007 and run a quick scan- it,s clean.

Actually i think it shows the items which it tries to detect, not the files it actually scans. So carney_ride.exe is no more a mystery for me.

 

Hi, aigle.
The screenshot that you posted is pretty much what I am seeing.
But you haven't heard back from that Mike guy from Symantec? This should be a piece of cake question for him.

 

He did not reply.

BTW I am preety sure that the files shown are not the scanned files. These are names of files being serached for. No more mystery.

 

Even if you and I are pretty sure that's the case. It would be nice to get something "official" so the originator of this thread can have peace of mind. Looking thru the replies, looked like he went thru hell following all these advices. Hope he didn't reformat his drive.
p.s. I am not faulting the people who gave him suggestions. I know not all people have Norton.

 

Actually I never used Norton otherwise it was preety easy to answer.