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Weird problem - suspect a virus
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From
08/08/2007 23:36:50
Al Doman (Online)
M3 Enterprises Inc.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
 
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01246946
Message ID:
01246950
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20
This message has been marked as a message which has helped to the initial question of the thread.
>Hi everybody,
>
>I wanted to check some program I wrote at home.
>
>So I looked at my Command Window History and I found it.
>
>MODIFY COMMAND "c:\documents and settings\owner\my documents\visual foxpro projects\outlooklist.prg"
>
>However, it was opening a blank document. When I tried to run it (perhaps it was my mistake) it was doing something, yet when I tried modify command the empty window was displayed.
>
>So I looked into this directory and found, that this program has an extra extension outlooklist.bak._eac_qt_ (same for prg).
>
>This is very strange and scary.
>
>Do you know why would it add such an extension?

It looks like it might be some sort of malware - search Google on "_eac_qt_" (especially 2nd page of results).

Also, you can search your computer's registry for that string and see if it appears in any suspicious places e.g. HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Run

Do you run antivirus software? If not free scans and/or free trials are offered by Trend Micro and Symantec, among others.

You may also want to download and install antispyware software such as Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy. If you're going to do this, install, update and run both of them.
Regards. Al

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