Ares and SFN!prng

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by JimGary, Jan 30, 2007.

  1. JimGary

    JimGary Private E-2

    I have a problem with 100% CPU utilization. I'm still working through the removal procedure. When I first saw the problem, Ares 1.x? was using 100% of the CPU. I managed to get that process killed and the program uninstalled. I dl'ed the newest version but got the same CPU overutilization problem. Killed the process again, uninstalled but then explorer.exe (or what appeared to be same) started to hog the CPU. Seems to be a classic Trojan problem so I started the Malware removal process. I've gotten throught the offline scans (apparently no big problems detected) and am now doing a BitDefender online scan and the only problem so far is a malware.SFN!prng hit on the Ares 2 installer. This could be coincidence but Googling same shows what may be a false positive with BitDefender and Ares 2.

    I'm not looking for definitive answers in advance of completing the Malware removal procedure but would appreciate anyone sharing their experience if they have experienced these symptoms.
     
    JimGary, Jan 30, 2007
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  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    That message from Bitdefender probably contained more information and that is why complete messages should always be given. It probably said something about Generic.Malware or similar. All P2P programs do things that malware scanning programs will detect as potential malware. So in effect what Bitdefender is telling you is that it does not like what it sees and you need to check to make sure you know what you are doing with this program. Like did you knowingly install it.

    In this forum, the only people who can answer your thread are people who help remove malware problems. And we don't use or recommend anyone use any P2P type programs. Even if the programs themselves are not bundled with malware (and many are) more they 60% of the people who get infected were infected by something related to downloading or installing things they obtained from using the P2P programs.
     
    chaslang, Jan 30, 2007
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