- Apr 1, 2003
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Last nite I had a problem with my computer. After my daughter finished chatting with her freinds on instant messaging, I went to check my distributed computing client. I noticed it was not running up to speed, so I went into task manager to see what was using up cpu cycles. I noticed a new process listed called MISSY.EXE that was not there before, using about 33% of cpu cycles. I also noticed that process NAVAPSVC.EXE (Norton Anti-Virus Auto Protect Service) was rapidly growing in size. It was up to 19,220K and still growing when I closed task manager. I decided to run Ad-Aware, Spybot, and Norton to see if they could pick up anything, but Ad-Aware wouldn't load up. When I tried to close Ad-Aware, I got a blue screen saying windows was shutting down. I shut the computer off, waited a few, restarted, and went into task manager. MISSY.EXE was gone and NAVAPSVC.EXE was sitting there quietly at 892K. I ran Ad-Aware, Spybot, and Norton Amti-Virus, the only thing found was Ad-Aware picked up a small data miner, Tribal Fusion, which I removed.
Anybody have an idea as to what was happening?
Anybody have an idea as to what was happening?