Recently I was having problems connecting on IRC to Undernet, it as reporting that I had a virus and I kept getting g-lined and instantly disconnected.
Did a sweep with Hijackthis, nothing out of the ordinary.
Did a sweep with Spybot S&D, nothing found.
Did a sweep with Ad-aware, also nothing found.
So I assumed it was a false positive, decided I couldn't use Undernet any more & switche d to IRCHiughway.
Then last night before going to bed I decided to run my antivirus software over my main hard drive.
THAT found something. 5 infected files were found.
3 hidden in Documents & Settings/Network Services (A folder that doesn't even exist!)
2 hidden in numbered subfolders inside my Sun/Java area.
I told Avast to put them into the virus chest, then I deleted them from the chest.
Tried to reconnect to Undernet, no more error messages about viri.
Clearly I WAS infected then.
I've written up this post so if anyone else has the same issue, they can look in the same places and find the virus more easily.
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