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[StephenS]

Hello, I recently downloaded MB to get rid of popup windows that were occurring on a client's machine. I have to say it really did a good job since it detected what other products could NOT find. For the most part, it took care of the nasty Vundo.H trojan that it found.

There is one registry key that will NOT go away however. What I find unusual is that it is not in the same registry location that Vundo.H usually puts it. As I have browsed around different forums, I have that most Vundo victims have two registry keys that will not go away. They are the following:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MS Juan
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MS Track System

If I found it in these keys, I would be a little less perplexed than I am now, but of course the trojan decided to throw me a curve.

Instead, I have just one key that will re-appear when I loff off and log back on. I don't even have to reboot to get it to show up. I have two different accounts that I have used to run the MB program in. When I run MB in one account, it comes up with nothing found. However, when I run it under another account, I get a notification that there is one key remaining. Of course I have removed it with MB as well as manually deleted it, but it just comes right back.

Anyhow, the offending key is this: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MS Track System" As you can see, it's a little different than the preceding keys that other users have reported problems with. Everything except the first value is the same though. This is also why I just have to log off and log back on for it to return since it's based on the user that is logged in.

Anyhow, any ideas why it would show in this location and not in the Local Machine key like it usually does? I'd like to get rid of this of course, but I wonder if this is another variant other than what the other people have been infected with. As I stated before, all other tests come out clean when logged in as a different user and the machine doesn't show ANY symptoms of being infected. It's just this one key decides to stick around after logging in again as this one user.

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