I was just uninstalling a trend bot-detector program and wasn’t even connected to the internet when the alert came from comodo. It says that explorer.exe is causing a buffer attack overflow and asked if I wanted to terminate or skip it. I chose skip it because I thought that explorer.exe is a safe windows application, but am still worried that I might be wrong.
I’m pretty sure my computer had been clean as I just had it checked and scanned and I haven’t done anything unusual. Is this explorer.exe something to worry about?
Probably your explorer.exe is infected,
or maybe the app is using a global hook to act as explorer.exe
so is it something to worry about? How should I check? I wasn’t connected to the internet when the alert showed up, and I was just uninstalling trend bot-dector. I just ran avira and malwarebytes and results are clean.
Hmm… Its kinda hard to tell if its malware or not. Logs from Hijackfree or hijackthis could help us to understand your cituation better. There are multiple scanners in the net which are great and should be used. SUPERAntispyware, Malwarebytes and a-squared are best malware scanners available at the moment.
If you were offline when this happened it maybe isn´t malware, but hey, what do I know? Maybe its older infection that got in to your system when you still had connection.
You can check the explorer.exe with virustotal.com :-TU
It scans files you upload with over 20 programs. Safe mode scans are also recommended IF you have virus.
Im not specialist with these things. Like i said, logs are recommended. A-squared has very helpful forums for these cituations, and if you want to, you can check them out. Register and read the beginners guide. Then start posting Win32Diag - , IseeYouXP - and hijack logs, but wait for malware specialist´s response to your topic before sending logs. :P0l
Good luck 