Annoying program win32host can i delete it?

leeroyMarv

leeroyMarv

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I have recently gotten incessant popups from 'rasautou' do you want to connect to this site "win32kernelupdate" "system.biz" and others and i think this program may be responsible. I believe that eveytime i go online it automatically downloads two other programs, "win32bootconfig.exe" "iexplorer.exe" these programs i did not trust asthey had no version info and were not relevant so i deleted both and they keep coming back so they must be a virus or something. I believe this program which is a hidden system file "win32host" is the cause it also has no certificates and doesn't seem to fit with my windows folder. Can i delete it and will this solve the problem? Thanks in advance for any help
 
It's a rather nasty trojan downloader is what it is there. Here's a brief description of it

"WIN32HOST.EXE - Dangerous

win32host.exe
WIN32HOST.EXE is a Trojan.Hiddl-B.
WIN32HOST.EXE downloads and executes files.
Related files:
WIN32HOST.EXE
%System%\SVSHOTC.EXE
%System%\iedld32.dll
More info: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses...
Removal:
Kill WIN32HOST.EXE process and remove WIN32HOST.EXE from Windows startup using RegRun Startup Optimizer.
Removal: WIN32HOST.EXE is removed by RegRun." http://www.greatis.com/appdata/d/w/win32host.exe_Removal.htm
 
Thanks PC eye, i thought it was a virus or the like. I just took my chances to erase it by removing system files from Sytem32, luckily i deletd the correct programs that it produced all four in win32. One 'win32sprot', one 'win32host (the main one i believe), one 'secure32', one 'win32bootconfig.' Luckily i know whats what on my system, but the puzlling thing is that neither my adware (very regularly updated), nor my norton (also very regularly updated) picked it up. I have no idea how it could have avoided detection.
 
Norton is rather outdated and far less effective then others unfortunately. But even a good one like AVG 7.1 won't catch everything. There's no one software that is the ultimate solution except one that removes all data off of a drive. It helps to get familiar with several differents ones since some of these newer viruses, malwares, spyware, adwares, and the list goes on... are intentionally written to go right around the protections commonly inplace. Keeping your system updated with the latest MS security fixes and cleaning out your history and offline content reduces infections as well as getting a good firewall inplace. Even the new Windows Defender beta 2 won't catch a number of things although it will often flag anything trying to install.
 
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