after a week of enjoying my latest vista reinstall, i decided to see what was up in msconfig and the local machine reg. to my surprise, an unknown startup entry was present: Winsock2 driver (unknown), and an unusual process running in task manager: "ecyy.exe". after a google, it looks as though i picked up a worm/trojan thingy
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none of the malware detectors (AV included) found anything out of place, yet all the info i could find pointed to it being something bad. i had to kill the process in task manager (otherwise, any attempt to remove it faild) before proceeding, then a simple trip to system32, the reg, and an uncheck in startup. oh, and clear prefetch, and any restore points (including your pagefile, if active). i wonder where it came from
![:g:](http://www.x64bit.net/site/board/public/style_emoticons/default/g.gif)
...a torrent (lots of warnings lately, in the individual torrents user comments section of a very "popular" tracker
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)? so far so good
here is a sample of what i found regarding this supposed malware:
http://www.f-prot.co...ons/spybot.html
(i did get a "blank" email after installing my mail client, but before installing the AV...
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