Hey everyone. Just earlier this morning, I downloaded a file that I thought was a plug in. I was skeptical, but alas, I ran the darned thing.

Anyways, I can supply a link to the file, but for the love of God, don't run it unless you know what you're doing. It may or may not have a virus in it.

I will repeat this again, DO NOT RUN THIS FILE, OR EVEN DOWNLOAD IT, AS IT MAY BE A VIRUS. Unless you know what you're doing.

THIS IS THE EXE I RAN.

DO NOT RUN THIS FILE, OR EVEN DOWNLOAD IT, AS IT MAY BE A VIRUS. Unless you know what you're doing.


Anyways, I'm making this topic, and supplying the link to that file in hopes that someone can help me identify what virus/worm/trojan, if any, it is and how to remove it.

I scaned it before running it and nothing came up. However, upon running it, I couldn't open my task manager. A pop up showed up saying the administrator disabled it.

Well, I ran a system restore and that didn't solve the problem. So, I looked up a fix for it, and it worked. A line placed in Run to edit the registry got my Task Manager back.

A .pf file was placed in my Windows/Prefetch and I promptly removed that and the exe itself.

There was a key in the registry by the name of the exe, and I removed that, however, when I ran msconfig, I looked at the start up tab and found that file, pointing the file which no longer is on my harddrive, and the registry key I removed.

I verified that the key is gone, and the file. However, I still don't know what else has been changed.

I ran Norton antivirus since, with updated definitions, but nothing was found.

Can anyone offer up any solutions, ideas, anything?

Thanks.