New member and a problem...

Hello guys and gals,

I'm a very new member and have a couple of questions regarding the following line in the HijackThis log I recently found:

[Microsoft Update 32] wininit32.exe

A friend tells me this is a VERY BAD THING but i'm a real computer Noob so don't know where to start to get rid of it!

Which forum should I be posting this problem in?

Thanks for your time, any help is most gratefully recieved.

Regards,

Tom

 

you might lookhttp://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php?letter=W&filter=&count=50&offset=250and it will tell you what that is. I am pretty sure it is not something you want on your computer. Once you are absolutly sure you want to get rid of it you can remove it with HJT. and then run a good AT or AW to make sure you got it all.

 

Looks like there is some patches for this(under description tab),

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32rbotaqg.html


snowbound

 

Thanks Snowbound, good info page on the patches.

 

Isn't that a variant of the RBot Wormypoos?...

Cochise,

 

Cochise: Yeah, I believe so, been doing some reading and looks to be a scary lil mofo - not happy bout havin this sucker in the least...

Got AVG freeware, Adaware, Spybot search & destroy, and RegistryFix - all updated and run em all, but when I run thru HijackThis and try to fix the Wininit32.exe file, it just keeps reappearing.

I have a problem, in that this machine I'm using at home is an old workgroup machine from a friends office that was obsolete cos he was upgrading - he reformatted the HD and reloaded XP Proffesional Edition for me and then gave it to me without the XP disc; XP is also unregistered, so i'm concerned about trying to update it with the various service packs.

PS - thanks for your help guys, much appreciated