billyellis
Posts: 154 +1
Hi,
XPHome, free installs of ZoneAlarm, AVG, SpybotSD, Malwarebytes, SuperAS (all up to date).
Two events have made me a little nervous, and I'm wondering if either or both together are known symptoms of a particular infection. The first is that my SpybotSD resident has been occasionally disappearing from my Taskbar when I mouse over it the first time after booting up. If I reboot it is back again. On its own I assumed some recent update in one of my AV/AS programs is causing interference and I did not worry too much about it.
But then last night I experienced a "double login," where I got to the login screen on booting up, entered the usual info, then saw the wallpaper briefly before the system reverted to the login screen again and was asking for the user/pass a second time. This happened to me once before a couple years ago. This time I shut down and rebooted clean and it did not happen again.
My concern is that the first login screen may have been a fake that some bootup malware used to grab my login info. Has anyone heard of any infections that can do that (mimic the Windows login page at startup)?? Logic says that the SDResident issue is a simple software conflict, and that the login issue is an occasional XP glitch. But if someone knows of a specific infection that might be at work, please let me know.
Thanks.
billyellis
XPHome, free installs of ZoneAlarm, AVG, SpybotSD, Malwarebytes, SuperAS (all up to date).
Two events have made me a little nervous, and I'm wondering if either or both together are known symptoms of a particular infection. The first is that my SpybotSD resident has been occasionally disappearing from my Taskbar when I mouse over it the first time after booting up. If I reboot it is back again. On its own I assumed some recent update in one of my AV/AS programs is causing interference and I did not worry too much about it.
But then last night I experienced a "double login," where I got to the login screen on booting up, entered the usual info, then saw the wallpaper briefly before the system reverted to the login screen again and was asking for the user/pass a second time. This happened to me once before a couple years ago. This time I shut down and rebooted clean and it did not happen again.
My concern is that the first login screen may have been a fake that some bootup malware used to grab my login info. Has anyone heard of any infections that can do that (mimic the Windows login page at startup)?? Logic says that the SDResident issue is a simple software conflict, and that the login issue is an occasional XP glitch. But if someone knows of a specific infection that might be at work, please let me know.
Thanks.
billyellis