Virus found.

Anyone else got their anti-virus picking up file "pjd5gtqvce4t.dll" as having Trojan Mespam?
Second Life refuses to run without this file and my anti-virus is going nuts over it, not even backing down and admitting it is a heuristic find or anything.

Which anti-virus package and version?

Pep (Narrow it down?)

Which anti-virus program are you using and do you have a report or log?

@Pep: Snap!

Avira Antivir version 9.

I am wondering if other anti-viruses are picking it up too.

That name pjd5gtqvce4t.dll doesn't look familiar, where did that come from/where is it located?

If you try to start the SL viewer, you get a message asking for that DLL?

Not even teh Googelz could find it.

/me tacklehugs Seven

I even re-installed Second Life to try and get around it. No change.

I can't even find such a dll on my computer. What version of viewer are you using?

I can't find it on my PC, either.

YEah, it kind of looks like the machine may actually be infected, but perhaps the scanner is misidentifying what infection it is. Some malware will install itself with randomized names, and that's kind of what that looks like. It wouldn't hurt to try some of the other scanners out there to get a sort of second opinion on what's happening.

That seems like a randomly generated .dll name. Look up the properties of the trojan on your AV software's info database and see if it generates such files.

Thanks but why is a fresh install of the latest standard viewer demanding to use that file?
Not in my definition file, it might be out of date or they forgot to add it?

Trojan.Mespam sends malicious website address through instant messaging software

If the infection has also replaced some legitimate system file that SL depends on, you can see errors like that, even if you reinstall the application. Try some other scanners and see what they say.

A really good AV is AVAST home edition. Its free too.

Find it here...

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

If removing the virus still cripples SL uninstall your client and shred every installer and folder related to SL that you have. Re-download a new client and see if that works.

What viewer are you trying to use?

You need to get rid of the trojan completely. I would suggest you download the free software from http://www.malwarebytes.org/ and run it until you are sure that the infection has been removed. There are other actions you could take to ensure your machine is clean, but I won't go into that here. Only after you are sure that your machine is clean (and don't trust virus checkers) should you reinstall SL.

Pep (You might want to consider installing SpyWareBlaster from http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html as well.)

Latest standard viewer.

doh.. I did actually read that but obviously suffer from selective comprehension blindness.

There's about a zillion ways a virus might be hiding itself in a freshly installed program and using a randomly generated file name to hide the bulk of the virus. If your system is so compromised that a complete virus scan doesn't eliminate it, it's probably time to back up your data files, reformat the hard disk, and reinstall everything from CDs or fresh downloads.

No, I'm not taking the piss. When I was a system admin, we regularly had to reimage user's computers (laptops, mostly) when they'd managed to catch something nasty on a hotel WLAN.

Malware out these days are good at mucking up the system files and hiding in the regestry. Most antivirus will only find the virus on disk and delete the file, but the consequences are still there including letting the malware re-install itself any time there is an internet connection. Spybot, among others, also scans through the registry and other places looking for these on load and bogus dependencies. But the end results are not often that great.

Download Spybot or some other malicious software removal tool. Install and update the tool. Then DISSCONNECT any network connections. Run the tool. Clean what you can and then, reboot and run the tool again. Reboot, reconnect and you should be as clean as you can make it.

But if it were my machine, I would blow the whole mess away and reformat back to factory image. You have about a 50|50 chance of requiring that in the end anyway.

I need to try avoid the format, I lost my Windows media disk.

Jenshae, the http://www.malwarebytes.org/ that Pep (Pserendipity Daniels) posted above works great. I would give that a try before doing anything else. It is probably free also. I had a red screen on my computer for months, ran that anti-virus software and it was gone.

That's bad.

I make multiple copies of mine, and keep the original box and disks in the closet...

That is one good thing about being in the tech business. There are more OS disks floatig around I can always get a copy of the version I need.