I have been getting a prompt to download default.exe for a while now, though I recently installed Norton Internet Security 2005. I got the prompt again, and it warned me it was a trojan virus and automatically removed from my computer. Apparently, it's a virus, but is it harmful? And what is this 'default.exe?'
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Default.exe
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Please post in the appropriate forum.
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It can be harmful. The default.exe is a program that can do numerous things. It can delete files, change files, open ports for hackers to get into, or most likely it's a mass mailing program that will use your computer to send out thousands of spam email. I did a cursory search and came up with this:When Download.Ject.C is executed, it performs the following actions:Downloads and opens default.chm, from the domain named www.vikord.com , using the Microsoft Outlook Express MHTML URL Processing Vulnerability (described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-013).Downloads an executable named default.exe, using the ADODB.Stream object vulnerability, and saves it as one of the following:C:\Programmer\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Program\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Programme\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Programmi\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Programfiler\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Programas\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Archivos de programa\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exeExecutes the wmplayer.exe file, which creates following files:%System%\doriot.exe (A copy of itself.) %System%\gdqfw.exe (A downloader module.)http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/download.ject.c.html
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Odd. I use Firefox.
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The link I posted said "Microsoft Outlook Express MHTML URL Processing Vulnerability"... so I don't know where you picked it up.
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"Please post in the appropriate forum. " i dont see where else he would post this at.
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This thread was moved to this forum after being in another...and why does it matter, this thread is old to begin with.
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basically, i was just wondering if there were other kind of forums to post that kind of stuff in. i thought it meant that this forum was the wrong place for it. and i dont see anything being wrong with reading and posting on old threads