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About csrss.exe Trojan File

05/15/2009 2:11 AM

in my task manager i found two file named csrss.exe one with 836k memory and other with 6492k memory. i heard that csrss.exe is a trojan. i attempted to delete it but i can't. please help me in this issue.

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Re: about csrss.exe trojan file

05/15/2009 2:13 AM

How did you try to delete it?

Did you try Malwarebytes:?

http://malwarebytes.org/

Because it is one of the best free virus removers.

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Re: About csrss.exe Trojan File

05/15/2009 1:34 PM

i'm using kaspersky virus it didn't detect and i used spy sweeper to remove it but it also didn't detect the virus. then i found the file in system32 and used shift+del but it didn't worked. it gives a warning the file is open in another process.

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Re: About csrss.exe Trojan File

05/15/2009 11:13 PM

Check running processes, and find kill the process. Then try deleting it. If you can not delete it after killing the process, then boot in safe mode and try deleting it. Safe mode should not allow the virus to load into memory. If this doesn't work, malwarebytes as recommended above should be able to handle this. What other damage has the virus done to your system? Can you restore to a previous state? Also note that some viruses can hijack your virus software, preventing you from updating the virus software (typically redirecting you to an incorrect site, and blocking access to the correct site).

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Re: About csrss.exe Trojan File

05/15/2009 11:31 PM

Csrss.exe is a core Windows process. Although there IS at least one malware program which masquerades as this program, in Windows, it is the Client/Server runtime System (the client side version of Win32.sys). This process cannot be ended from the Task Manager.

See here:

http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?catalog=LCID%3D1033&query=csrss.exe&mode=r

for additional details.

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Re: About csrss.exe Trojan File

05/16/2009 1:25 AM

Client Server Runtime Process = CSRSS.EXE y have 3.

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Microsoft® Windows® Operating System

It`s a trojan?... A Trojan of Microsoft

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Re: About csrss.exe Trojan File

08/06/2009 2:41 PM

yesterday i noticed my internet connection had slowed considerably, checked processes and noticed i had 2 items called csrss.exe in my processes list. when i tried to end the process my comp crashed. Looked around a bit, tried Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and it seems to have fixed it=)

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

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