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Modecate
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      01-25-2004
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:51:36 GMT, Modecate <> wrote:

>Found an executable on my windows\system dir: mpwzojgl.exe, though
>earlier it had a different name, so it seems to spawn random names.
>Size is 453K . Norton didn't turn up anything, neither did spybot or
>adaware. First saw it while running a check on my running processes in
>proport(recommended BTW) Pretty sure it knocked out my Norton
>installation first time round and had to reinstall. Can't find any
>suspicious HKLM or HKCU run, runonce or runservices. Oh, and running
>the exec gives the error "can't load ak32dll.dll"(did a find file..no
>luck) after which the exec deletes itself! WTF? Any ideas out there?

OK, I found out what it was....an anti keylogger demo that I thought
had been disabled. I have to say this use of random file names is
unusual though. I'm not suggestibg this is a virus, far from it, it
seems to be the most widely used akl around.
 
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