I think I may have downloaded a virus but about a week ago I was downloading music and then in iTunes my music would start getting exclamation points saying that the file couldn't be found. I checked Limewire and the files are all 408kb in size and not reconized anymore as audio files but instead as programs.
So I deleted all of the files and uninstalled Limewire then I reinstalled it later. Just today I found that some of my files were not working and sure enough about 12 of them were all 408 kb so I cut out all the good files and saved them away and deleted the rest.

I found that in my shared files that I had a an untitled folder that was 0.0 kb in size that I was unable to delete.


Also while searching for answers I stumbled accross another person who had the same problem.

http://www.computing.net/security/ww...rum/20373.html

Does anyone know if this is a virus or if anyone has experienced this other than myself and this person?
Please help!

Sounds like the same thing as this:

http://www.limewire.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1070

According to that thread most Antivirus apps should be able to catch this now. Have you tried scanning with AntiVirus?

I scanned and caught a few trojans and thought that I got rid of it after it messed up my entire library the first time. But apparently it must have missed it so I guess I should get a different anti virus program

The same thing happened to me :S I don't what to do :'(

Could you open your task manager by pressing and holding down Ctrl+Alt then pressing Delete and see if a process is running named (scvhosts.exe) not svchost.exe. There is a new variant of a virus running around that is 408kb in size and it enters a running process called scvhosts.exe

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Yes I have that in my running processes. I ended the process but how do I get rid of it and what does it do?

Try AVG Antivirus I have heard that it will clean it up.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

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