Malware from SUPER?

[Yamitora1]

For the last year I've been battling sunkist.notifyicondata.hWnd and n.exe These two problems have caused me to reformat me PC twice in only 6 months.

Now today while running Super, my PC bogged down to a snail pace, and when I went to Windows Task Manager I saw 1strun.exe

I Googled 1strun.exe and got some hits that cause me to be alarmed. Then something hit me. My pc was reinfected with sunkist.notifyicondata.hWnd and n.exe around the same time I re-installed Super on my freshly reformatted PC.

I think Super might actually be the cause of the sunkist.notifyicondata.hWnd and n.exe infection.

I'm a amature with computers, so i don't have the tech skills or anything to conform it, but its awfully funny that I get infected with sunkist.notifyicondata.hWnd and n.exe roughly in the same time frame I installed Super

[CogoSWSDS]

If you don't trust super but you still want to run it, do what I do. I've downloaded VirtualPC and a VirtualPC image of WinXP from Microsoft. Install Virtual PC, add the WinXP image to VirtualPC. Once you've done this, you can start a WinXP virtual machine by starting VirtualPC then asking it to start the desired WinXP virtual machine. Now you've got a nice sandbox that you can install Super on, copy the file you want to convert from your environment to the virtual machine, run super on it, then copy the output back to your main environment.

The beauty of this is, if the virtual machine gets infected, no big deal, you didn't have anything important on it anyway. You can just remove it from VirtualPC, delete the image from your HDD, download another one and set it up.

CogoSWSDS

[redwudz]

Where did you download SUPER from? It's highly unlikely they would have any malware from SUPER's website or many people would be aware of it. Other sites may be a bit more shaky.

Some malware can hide in your restore files. As much as I hate to say it, sometimes the best method to start over is a clean install of the OS, then using some decent anti-malware programs. I've been using freeware programs such as Avast, Spyware Blaster, and SpyBot S&D. No malware in several years.

If you haven't tried it, Malware Bytes does a good job of removing malware. Trend Micro's free Housecall is also good and you can run it in Safe Mode to eliminate a few malware programs that run after a normal boot: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ If you want a through scan, HiJackThis will find most anything, but not so easy to interpret: http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/

And since your post doesn't really relate to the original thread, moving it to a new thread.

And welcome to our forums.

[lordsmurf]

Use virustotal.com files before claiming a virus.
Some of those checkers just suck -- McAfee and Norton are the worst offenders, too.

[isogonic]

Probably a coincidence. There are quite a few ways one can get malware. A single trojan downloader can fetch plenty of goodies.

[darkknight145]

i agree there is something a bit stange with super although it could be just a false detection (i use AVG Free), if i try to update from within super a virus is detected in the downloaded file, but if i update by going to the website and downloading the complete new version no virus is detected

[freebird73717]

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/315100-What-s-the-deal-w-people-leaving-tools-bad-r...virus-positive