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I ran my weekly virus scan and Avast foundd something that made it through all my operating detections, until now. It was called "erikxx.chm", and it was an "online.exe". I tried to get Avast to delete it but the error message said that it was a shared file, and could not. Then I just deleted it off the location with just a Right-click and delete command. It went away, but Avast also discovered that it was in my Outgoing Box all of the sudden. Avast stopped it from retreating, and I was able to delete it from the Outgoing box. What I forgot to do before restarting the PC was to delete the deleted folder. Since I did not, erikxx found his way back onto the C drive. I deleted him from the deleted folder and the C drive again, and restarted. He is gone for good.
Funny thing, though...is when I decided to look at what he was, I clicked on it to actually run the exe. It only came up with some kind of help screen that had nothing going on. I checked my running operations, and there was nothing there. I checked the startup menu and there was nothing there. By all appearances, this thing was dormant. I did a Google on it, but found no information directly related to it, though I did find people on game forums who use the name ErikXX.
Anyway...It was alot easier to get rid of than I would have imagined. Avast would not delete it because it thought it did not have the permission to, but I was able to delete it with the easiest of methods.
Just freaking wierd.
Oh..I forgot one thing. When I deleted it from the C drive but did not yet know that it was trying to be sent through the Outlook outgoing...When I realized that something was in Outlook, I tried to access Outlook but I was not allowed in! I had to restore Erikxx to the C drive so that I could get into my Outlook profile...delete Erik from the folder, then delete him from the C drive, in that order.
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