i need to run something that has a virus...

invictius · Jun 4, 2008

I remember being able to "disinfect" something that had a virus, but can't remember what prog it was.

Anyway, I'm running AntiVir, and it's picked up "TR/AGENT222624". It's just an exe to extract some files. Does anyone know what this could do to my system?

EchoTheDolphin · Jun 4, 2008

Any virus is a bad virus, unless it's business critical or contains very important information (whoever sent it to you in that condition should be shot btw

) delete it.

Generally when a file is infected it's very doubtful that it can be completely recovered.

don256us · Jun 4, 2008

If Antivir could clean the virus off of the exe, it would. My guess is that you got rooked on the "file extractor" thing. My guess is that the "file extractor" is really a virus and not an extractor at all. Perhaps it never was an extractor. Social engineering got you to download a file that you *really* want and then gave you a virus to open it up with. Just my synical view.

I furhter think that AntiVir IS the program that you are looking for to remove the virus. You just don't like tha answer that it is giving you which is, the exe is a virus not merely infected with a virus.

EchoTheDolphin · Jun 4, 2008

don256us said:
If Antivir could clean the virus off of the exe, it would. My guess is that you got rooked on the "file extractor" thing. My guess is that the "file extractor" is really a virus and not an extractor at all. Perhaps it never was an extractor. Social engineering got you to download a file that you *really* want and then gave you a virus to open it up with. Just my synical view.

I furhter think that AntiVir IS the program that you are looking for to remove the virus. You just don't like tha answer that it is giving you which is, the exe is a virus not merely infected with a virus.

Truth.

Regardless, I'll still repeat for emphasis, don't knowingly unleash a virus on your system.

i need to run something that has a virus...

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