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music lovers and net lovers i have just found some rater annoying viruses, finally after a few days of them causing hell on my computer i killed them but have made a copy of them on my spare computer for experiments so i will be able to take note of what they do when unchecked

so far they were untraceable with my anti-viruses, so here's how to stop them and what they do from my studies of them

run a search on your computer for the files 8631 and msa they are both "fake .exe viruses" and can destroy your computer i have been watching them slowly kill my comp the last couple of days trying to find them AVG so far has not been able to find them so you have to search for them yourself with the search tool or with ctrl+alt+del

8631.exe: it kills your speakers and plays ads in the background that you need the volume at a decent amount to hear it or have sharp hearing as well as making the odd clicking noise like a mouse click noise so it's doing something else that i have yet to determine

EDIT: it's disabled ctrl+alt+del!

the full file name: C biggrin ocuments and SettingsXXXX*Local SettingsTemp8631.exe
*changed from my user name for privacy reasons

msa.exe: this makes ads pop up in "internet explorer" but the ctrl+alt+del doesn't register any iexplorer.exe being open but a file that uses 50,000-180,000 K of Mem usage appears called msa.exe making it so you can only open things and wait forever for them to open/load

other file names it comes under: 5.bak, msa.cpl

the full file name of it: C:WINDOWSmsa.exe

EDIT: i submitted a copy of this viruses to a company and here are the threat levels

8631.exe: still pending

msa.exe: high risk level http://www.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/pest.aspx?id=453148301

if your going why should i care it's not happening to me here's a little piece of info that you might get a kick out of every time i went on DA, Google, Gaia Online, Wikipiedia, SNAFU comics, Ctrl+Alt+Del they would start up

where it came from :shrug: who knows but it is a real problem
if i have any more info on either of them i will let everybody who cares know

i hope this is of some use to somebody