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Question by Bruno697
Submitted on 7/16/2003
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I went to PCPITSTOP.com to get a check on my system and it told me that I had a virus, it said the file name is, C:\windows\system32\-embedding. I ran my norton virus scan and it found nothing. I did a search for the file and it found nothing. Is this something I should worry about? Thank you for any feed back.

Answer by Follow-up
Submitted on 9/17/2003
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Any answer on how to fix the malicious script worm or virus or trojan with the file name of "C:\windows\system32\-embedding"

Answer by Drew
Submitted on 9/17/2003
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I was getting the same thing: a malicious script from "C:\WINDOWS\system32\-Embedding". In my experience it only tried to run when I went to www.google.com. I allowed the whole script to run once and so far so good. But before that I made a restore point. I'll keep you posted if something happens.

Answer by 4eyes
Submitted on 9/18/2003
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I got the same problem. As soon as I go to google or altavista I get a warning from norton av about a malicious script. Norton is up-to-date but it couldnt find anything on the system. btw I've got this problem on 4 computers on the same day.

Answer by poacher
Submitted on 9/18/2003
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im on the same boat looking for fix cant be good got it on google home

Answer by Kyorin
Submitted on 9/18/2003
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I also had this happen to both my PC's at home yesterday. Norton warns of a malicous script and recommends stopping it - which of course I did. But like others here, this warning now appears every time I visit the google home pages i.e. google.com & google.co.uk I have the same warning as others regarding c:\windows\system32\-embedding I'm not sure how to proceed with this, is this an infected file on my PC or is it something on Google itself? Any ideas? Kyorin

Answer by Red
Submitted on 9/18/2003
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I would like to protect my computer / from viruese

Answer by justjuice
Submitted on 9/18/2003
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I've been getting this too over the last few days. Have you all run live update recently? Have any of you installed the google toolbar? I can't find anything else on this - and norton doesn't seem to handle it.

Answer by drossen
Submitted on 9/18/2003
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i just saw, when you type in : http://www.google.com/mghyp that it DOES work :s

Answer by Bob
Submitted on 9/18/2003
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The Norton warning about windows\system32\-embedding first started last night about 10 minutes after I had done a google search. I ran windows\system32\-embedding through all the search engines I could think of and google is the only engine that had a reference. This site and another site that gives me a security alert when I try and go there - something about the security certificate being from some one I didn't trust. Last night, there were only 3 responses on this list - now there are 15, It would be nice if someone knew what was going on.

Answer by hotmaster
Submitted on 9/18/2003
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Hi, it was a Trojan Horse, coming with google, alta vista, bringing this alert from Norton. Google solved the problem yesterday, everything is working well now.

Answer by sahin
Submitted on 10/29/2003
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j'aimerais savoir ce qu'il se passe avec se putain de sys 32\embleding c quoi cette m..... comment en sent debarasse au secour help me please svp

Answer by Nico
Submitted on 12/8/2003
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My Norton also says C:\WINDOWS\system32\-Embedding,but after a while theirs a thing on the tool bar that wont go away,then the screen turns red and it say "HOLD THE KEY DOWN FOR TEN SECONDS AND SOMETHING COOL WILL HAPPEN!"And then I turn off the computer,afraid of what could happen.(its happened 3 times.)Also,It started doing it at www.fanfiction.net and its started doing wherever I go.

Answer by pity
Submitted on 12/22/2003
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http://forums.techguy.org/t165625/s5ec145a8ddc56bd0afb7ce46ecaaa70e.html

Answer by chris-inator
Submitted on 3/22/2004
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Answer by like to help your computer
Submitted on 9/10/2004
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Trojan horses are annoying; and they can be found at alldanz.com; a music radio website. That is where I had encountered my first trojan horse, McAfee active shield solved the problem. There are several sites to get help www.pcpitstop.com/ run AOL Spyware/ http://TopSpywareRemovers.com http://housecall.antivirus.com/ http://NoAdware.net These cam give you valuable tools and information about spyware, trojans , and other computer vre's. Good Luck!!!!! And Have A Nice Day.

Answer by GOULD1
Submitted on 5/16/2006
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I'M SEEING THAT GOGGLE HAD A PROBLEMS BUT I WENT TO THIS SITE TO SEE IF ANYONE HAS HAD ANY LUCK OR TROUBLE WITH PCpITSTOP OPT. EVERY TIME I RUN ONE OF THESE FREE PROGRAMS IT TELLS ME THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG BUY AND WE WILL FIX IT I HAVE REGISTRY MECHANIC RUN EVERY DAY OR SO SEND IT MIGHT FIND S MINOR PROBLEM ANYONE FEEL PCPITSTOP IS DOING ANYTHING TO IN-PROVE????????

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Answer by brick
Submitted on 3/30/2005
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were the problems occuring before you went to this pcpitstop site or have you gone to this site before and known that it can be trusted?

Answer by martin
Submitted on 6/3/2005
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no

Answer by bonehead1
Submitted on 6/15/2005
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try trendmicro.com that works better then norton i think good luck it all free

Answer by Terry Trammer sr.
Submitted on 9/18/2006
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I am a com cast customer and I have been trying to get to my home page I can't get it. Please help me if you can. Thank You very much!