~pete19c/x.php

[aronaya]

In the past 2 weeks, I've been struggling to find out how to get some apparent spyware off my PC. Malwarebytes doesn't catch it, and there is little showing up on Google about it. Seems to be something new. I looked at the "new spyware" forum, and I don't have the skills to post samples -- wouldn't have a clue where to start to do that.

Under Windows XP, I get the following, frequently:

- loss of focus so that I have to hit Alt-tab to get back to my typing.

- a small dialog box that says: error, ~pete19c/x.php

- in the past day, a message that asks to verify if I want to navigate away from an IE page (I don't use IE, use Firefox)

One website says this ~pete19c/x.php file lives at cix.sytes.net. It also cites resultnemo.com. I have not visited either site. At a guess, I might have picked this thing up from Facebook.

I don't have the technical skills to dig further into this on my own. Is it on the radar for a Malwarebytes update? Any suggestions for other resources? Assuming somehow I can clean it off, what precautions should I take to ensure security going forward?

Thanks for any help,

aronaya

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