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[needtogetfit2]

Hi, newbie here. My anti virus software Symantic detected a trojan or something when I went on to a site. It said it could not clean or quarentine the file. So I used Kaspersky online scan and it detected cmdow.exe as a possible virus but it does not clean either. Is it possible that cmdow.exe is the trojan that Symantic detected? Could it harm my PC? I have used spybot, ad-aware, ccleaner, cwshredder, ewido anti malaware, mcafee and none of them have detected anything. None of them come up with cmdow.exe as a problem. All help appreciated Thanks.

[Micah_6:8]

CMDOW Commandline Window Utility

Does that help?

[needtogetfit2]

no, does that mean it can be used by someone to ruin my computer or not? should i delete it or not? my computer keeps rebooting itself

[Micah_6:8]

CMDOW - Commandline Window Utility

Summary
Command line tool to manipulate windows. This includes hiding windows.

Category
Misc Tool : Any tool that might be used in planning an attack on a system, developing tools for such an attack, or performing it.

It can be used for "devious" purposes.

Important: Create a folder on the C: drive called C:\HJT.
You can do this by going to My Computer (Windows key+e) then double click on C: then right click and select New then Folder and name it HJT.
Download HijackThis into this folder.

If required a tutorial is here = Hijackthis Folder Tutorial

Links to Hijack This! v 1.99.1:

Hijack This! at tools.radiosplace.com

Hijack This! at spywarewarrior.com

Run it from that folder.

Click "Do a system scan and save a log file".

DO NOT "FIX" ANYTHING WITH IT YET!!!
FIXING THE WRONG THING COULD RENDER YOUR SYSTEM INOPERABLE!!!


Go to this forum:

HijackThis Logs and Spyware/Malware Removal

Start a new topic, and "copy/paste" the ENTIRE CONTENTS of the log file into the new topic.

Someone will examine it, and provide help.

[needtogetfit2]

ok, thank you.