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Weird problem - suspect a virus
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08/08/2007 23:47:48
 
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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:
01246953
Views:
30
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>>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?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>Ouch, seems like I'm right in my suspicion :(

Ya looks like a possible infection, Virtumonde seems to mentioned a lot with that extension name. Time to pull out the virus scanners and get to work.

I'd also run Hijackthis and check the logs.

Let me know if you need help.
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