Virus "TSSG EXE." ?? (W98)

[deanr]

Hi All ! Any info on this virus on my comp. at start up would B fantastic ?!? My comp. pops up with this notice at start up. Got no firewall or virus field but after this it will B rectified !!! Thanx much appreciated Deanr ;)

[Mocha]

Check on Trend Micro Housecall. You can get an online virus scan at the below link, also. I forget there's a link to your left right on this site!

Virus list & fixes:

<a target="_blank" href=http://www.housecall.antivirus.com>www.housecall.antivirus.com</a>

[TonyKlein]

It could well be some sort of (advertising?) trojan
I'm not certain what it is exactly, but I 've seen it before, and it will show in your startups for sure:

Download StartLog.com from this site: <a target="_blank" href=http://home.earthlink.net/~rmbox/Reticulated/Only_IE.html>http://home.earthlink.net/~rmbox/Reticulated/Only_IE.html</a>

Doubleclick it, and it will generate a text file on your desktop that will list all the applications that start in the many places when you start Windows.

We don't need to see StubPath.txt, just Startup.Log

Just go to 'Edit/select all, then copy, and paste it into your reply.

[Mocha]

Hi Tony,

Do you mean that would likely be a trojan, because it comes up at startup? There's nothing on Google.

Btw, you've sure been busy with that startup log lately! I'll get a copy of that and start posting it. Then I'll tell them, Tony will be around to take a look at it for them. /images/forums/icons/laugh.gif

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<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Mocha on 05/28/02 01:31.</FONT></P>

[TonyKlein]

Ha! /images/forums/icons/laugh.gif

I'ts because I've seen it a couple of times before, but the the antivirus guys still don't seem to be offering protection against it.

It's probably a somewhat less aggressive advertising or spyware trojan.

But it's important to be careful, so do run the online scan, and post your startups so that we can nail this one.

[TonyKlein]

Also, I did find a couple of Google/Google groups hits.

Among them:

"For some reason every so often I keep getting .exe files appearing in the start folder of my start menu too. Todays one was on the C drive in WINDOWS\START MENU\PROGRAMS\STARTUP\TSSG.EXE"

and

"My computer has told me that the file windows\startmenue\programs\startup\tssg.exe is corrupt and needs to be reinstalled"

So you might check your startup folder, and check whether yours is there as well.

After deleting the entry, reboot, do a search for the file itself, and delete that as well.