NAI_VS_STAT virus?!

[Rhythmdvl]

Yikes! I just downloaded Task Terminator, a free utility from ZeaSoft. It supplants Windows Task Manager and allows you to see (and terminate) more programs running in the background. In seeing what was running, I saw the program “NAI_VS_STAT”. Not knowing what it was, I plugged it into Google and came up with relatively few hits. One of the pages I could read (some were in different languages) said among other things

This is a dangerous worm spreading through Internet and IRC channels, as well as infecting local network. The worm itself is a Windows application written in Delphi, about 90K of size (the worm also may be compressed by a PE EXE compression tool, so the resulting file size can be less than the original).

:eek: I’ve recently ran McAfee with an updated DAT file, and put NAI_VS_STAT into their search directory but nothing came up. Could this be an innocent miscommunication or slight coincidence in names? I’ve looking in my registry for any keys with “Silver” and found none of the .exe files on my machine (the page linked above gives a few more details than the pasted quote). Should I worry? Well, sure, but should I worry about this? Thanks!
Rhythmdvl

[Arjuna34]

NAI_VS_STAT is a McAffee virus-scanning process (NAI, i.e. Network Associates, owns McAffee.)

According to the page you linked, the I-Worm.Silver worm shuts down anti-virus processes such as NAI_VS_STAT. You don’t have the worm, you just have the antivirus software running in the background.

Arjuna34

[Rhythmdvl]

Ahhhhhhhh! THNAK YOU!!

note to self: don’t panic…don’t panic…don’t panic… (and don’t forget your towel)

Again, thanks. I should have seen that in the page.

[Rhythmdvl]

THNAK: verb
To profess gratitude while offering chips or cookies.