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I have all the regular precautions, take care of where I go, and use Ad-aware regularly and several others whenever I get the urge, so my system has been clean for some time.

Today, I tried to download DX9 from Microsoft itself, and was told that Microsoft was downloading a new "validator" before it would allow me to download any Microsoft upgrade or product. It actually downloaded while I was reading it. Norton popped up in the middle of reading the message, telling me that a virus had been identified in a file. It gave some strange name I can't recall, like 'GJVMS5.dll" or something like that, and also told me it could not delete it as it had been identified as a sytem file. I clicked "OK" and was presented with a message that Microsoft was validating my system. I noticed a small flash, hit {ctrl alt del} and found nothing. I then hit {alt tab} and saw another instance of internet explorer which DID NOT show on my taskbar. When I tried to bring it to the front, it would not come, and when I minimized the browse, it still did not appear, so I hit {alt tab} again, and HELD IT DOWN and finally got a window listing all my files, and something merrily scanning the contents of EACH TEXT, DOC and HTML file and well as my internet cache. I immediately hard-crashed my computer, unplugged my DSL cable, and restarted my computer, and ran Norton, which gave me the same message about can't delete a system file, then, as I have AVG as a backup, I ran that and was told that my system had been infected by an UNKNOWN trojan and a worm virus, and informed me that it could not remove a system file while the computer was running, that the infected file was in use, but offered to remove it on re-boot, which I did.  Has anyone else encountered this, or is it something new? I finally found a backdoor to Microsoft downloads through mdgx.com (axels max speed) and got my files. I would warn anyone who wants to update a Microsoft product to find the download elsewhere. Thanks, Mike

Not sure where you were getting this download from, I'd like to know the url tho.

More than likely your av popped up an false\positive. Btw, you can go into Norton to check exactly what the file was called, it should be recorded in the logs section.

Alot of the validators they use install in the 'back ground', as for that site, I don't recommend people get patches from anyone but MS. If your system is legal you have no worries. All this nonsense about MS installing viruses has never been proven at all.