Posted on 05/21/2004 2:51:35 PM PDT by healey22
Please someone help. I am running windows xp home edition. AVG ran and alerted me to this. It said virus could not be healed and move it into the vault.
I noticed for about the past three weeks something was wrong. Windows media player would try to access the internet upon booting up each time. I would not let it access and could not figure how to stop it from loading when i started my computer.
I ran a virus check over it with AVG and no virus was found. So, I downloaded the latest version of windows media player from microsoft and a couple of days later AVG tells me I have a virus called downloader.small5.y and it cannot be healed so it moved it to the vault.
I did let the new version of windows media player access the internet one time.
When I go to the AVG site and look up virus definitions, there is no such virus. HELP! What do I need to do.
You may have to step back to an earlier System Restore point in XP to get rid of it.
Go to www.computing.net. It is a computer help forum that you can search for answers to such questions. I have found it invaluable everytime I go there.
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That's not really possible. You have been afflicted with a well known trojan that hijacks or replaces the executable file that runs Windows Media Player. When you run the installation from Microsoft's website, that will overwrite the beastie and fix it. Any answers you get from Computing.net should bear that out.
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