6 winlogon showed up in search? what is going on?? please help picture in thread.

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by heythere, Dec 14, 2006.

  1. heythere

    heythere Private E-2

    I dont know if I am infected or not. but when I did a search for winlogon
    six logons showed up...instead of one logon being in system 32 folder???

    I did a spyware,virus,malware search and nothing has come up.

    if you could help me out. and let me know if I am infected or not
    that would be great. thanx.

    here is a picture of what I'm talking about...

    http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r73/helloheythere/logn.jpg
     
  2. bjgarrick

    bjgarrick MajorGeeks Admin - Malware Expert

    It's not malware related, not a threat.
     
  3. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Welcome to Majorgeeks!

    Those versions of winlogon are all located in legitimate windows folders or to be more accurate in Microsoft update patches and their respective uninstaller backup files hence the $ symbol, the one in System32 is the original main Winlogon file and the one in system32\ddlcache is the backup.

    with those above you are fine, but to make double sure your not infected with anything you'd have to run our guide below.....




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    edit: BJ types quicker than me ;)
     

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