Hello and welcome to
TSF.
Please be informed that your system is infected with a
password stealing trojan which may have severely compromised your system.
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High risks are typically installed without user interaction through security exploits, and can severely compromise system security. Such risks may open illicit network connections, use polymorphic tactics to self-mutate, disable security software, modify system files, and install additional malware. These risks may also collect and transmit personally identifiable information (PII) without your consent and severely degrade the performance and stability of your computer.
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f this system is used for online banking or has credit card information on it, all passwords should be changed immediately by using a different and clean computer to make the changes. Banking and credit card institutions, if any, should be notified of the possible security breech. I suggest that you read
this article too.
Although the trojan is identifed and can be cleaned, many experts in the security community believe that once infected with this type of Trojan, the best course of action would be a reformat and reinstall of the OS. In all honesty, if this were to be my computer, I would reformat and reinstall Windows XP.
Please let me know what course of action you would like to take.