Google is goood enough for me. I deleted it and nothing stopped working.
Why don't you  look it up?


DS



On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 10:07:35 -0500 Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
> 
> "Looked it up" doesn't mean much. Did you upload it or scan it? If 
> all
> you did was search for the filename "killer.exe", then that's not
> exhaustive at all. It could be literally anything. I'm not 
> suggesting
> you keep it around very long (and certainly you shouldn't run it), 
> but
> it's impossible to know what it is just by guessing on name alone.
> Like I said, even antivirus flagging it isn't enough to 100% prove
> anything.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Dale E Sterner 
> <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote:
> >
> > I found the file while rewriting autoexec.bat then looked it up 
> with
> > google
> > to see what it is used for. - it said that it is malware used to 
> destroy
> > windows.
> >
> > DS
> >
> > .
> >
> > On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 18:46:12 -0500 Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> 
> writes:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Apr 1, 2015 12:50 PM, "Dale E Sterner" <sunbeam...@juno.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > After reading google I deleted killer.exe. Check and see if 
> your
> >> copy
> >> > contains it.
> >> > It is installed by the autoexec.bat file and is located in the 
> dos
> >> > directory.
> >>
> >> Just in general ....
> >>
> >> Antiviruses are very notorious for false positives, for both DOS 
> and
> >> Windows software, even extremely innocuous stuff. Heuristics are
> >> usually to
> >> blame. Also, half the time I have to disable real-time protection
> >> because
> >> of such false positives. This is almost worse than having an 
> actual
> >> virus.
> >> It's very inconvenient and not nearly as rare as I'd like.
> >>
> >> Not that I encourage anyone to download this (for various 
> reasons),
> >> but ....
> >>
> >> It would've been better if you had uploaded the suspected file to
> >> http://www.virustotal.com to compare against many antivirus 
> vendors
> >> just to
> >> be sure it wasn't a false positive (although some of them use the
> >> same bad
> >> heuristics). In particular, while not 100% proof, if the file is 
> a
> >> PE .EXE,
> >> then it's "probably" not for DOS.
> 
>
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