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Old 12-01-2005, 06:04 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Help remove Trojan(s)??

My computer seems to be infested with around 6(?) trojans, Nod32 sees them, but apparently only when I scan my comptuer with Ad-Aware, and can't delete nor Quarentine them. It's resulting in serious problems, I've gotten two BSoD's in the past two days. One of which I woke up to not too long ago, and as you can imagine the sound of an mp3 skipping and looping is not a nice sound to wake up to, and seeing a BSoD doesn't making anything better. But I've already had some minor data corruption (WinMX settings files etc) and I'm worried about my more important data. The computer sometimes restarts by itself when I'm in the middle of something. I can't format because I refuse to lose all of my music, I need the music and I've got over 20Gb 2500+ files. I was thinking about re-partitioning and backing it up onto a new partition then formatting C:... but I was wondering if there was just any easy way to clean the trojans? Thanks, any help would be much appreciated, I don't have much experience here, this is my first infection in a long time.
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Old 12-01-2005, 06:10 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Update...

Alright, nevermind that. I did a In Depth Analasys with Nod32, it actually *found* them in the scan this time...

All the trojans are located within "C:\Documents and Settings\Onyx\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\javapi\v1.0\jar\"

count.jar-79352e87-3a519813.zip »ZIP »BlackBox.class - Java/ClassLoader.AA trojan
count.jar-79352e87-3a519813.zip »ZIP »VerifierBug.class - Java/ClassLoader.AA trojan
count.jar-79352e87-3a519813.zip »ZIP »Dummy.class - Java/ClassLoader.AA trojan
count.jar-79352e87-3a519813.zip »ZIP »Beyond.class - Java/ClassLoader.AA trojan
java.jar-1109b54b-75cd72f0.zip »ZIP »GetAccess.class - Java/TrojanDownloader.OpenConnection.AJ trojan
java.jar-1109b54b-75cd72f0.zip »ZIP »Installer.class - Java/TrojanDownloader.OpenConnection trojan
loaderadv433.jar-1f248ffd-364e7b5c.zip »ZIP »Matrix.class - modified Java/TrojanDownloader.OpenConnection trojan
loaderadv433.jar-1f248ffd-364e7b5c.zip »ZIP »Counter.class - Java/ClassLoader.H trojan
loaderadv433.jar-1f248ffd-364e7b5c.zip »ZIP »Dummy.class - Java/Dummy trojan
loaderadv433.jar-1f248ffd-364e7b5c.zip »ZIP »Parser.class - Java/ClassLoader.B trojan
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Download CWShredder and run it. Click on 'I Agree' button if you agree with it. Click on 'Fix' (it will automatically fix anything it finds for you) and OK. If it asks if you want to delete a certain random file, choose No and post that filename here. Let it finish the scan and then hit Next and Exit.

Download and install Spybot S&D. Run Spybot and click on the 'Search for Updates' button. Install any updates that are available. Next click on the 'Check for Problems' button. Let it run the scan. If it finds something, check all those in RED and hit the Fix Selected Problems button. Exit Spybot.

Please download HijackThis - this program will help us determine if there are any spyware/malware on your computer. Create a folder at C:\HJT and move HijackThis.exe there. Double click on the program to run it.

1. If it gives you an intro screen, just choose 'Do a system scan and save a logfile'.
2. If you don't get the intro screen, just hit Scan and then click on Save log
and post it here. Do not fix anything in HijackThis since they may be harmless.
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CWShredder didn't find anything, I already had that installed. Nod32 finds the trojans, it just can't do anything about them. Ad-Aware finds a few things, Spybot got 70 things.

HiJackThis Log:

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 12:36:15 PM, on 12/1/2005
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel\atiptaxx.exe
C:\Program Files\Eset\nod32kui.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\PESTPA~1\PPMemCheck.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\PESTPA~1\PPControl.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\PESTPA~1\CookiePatrol.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7Debug\mdm.exe
C:\Program Files\Eset\nod32krn.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\Onyx\My Documents\My Downloads\Spybot S&D v1.4.exe
C:\DOCUME~1\Onyx\LOCALS~1\Temp\is-EABE6.tmp\is-QU8CK.tmp
C:\HJT\HijackThis.exe

O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3310.z1301.winmx.com c3311.z1301.winmx.com c3312.z1301.winmx.com c3313.z1301.winmx.com c3314.z1301.winmx.com c3315.z1301.winmx.com c3316.z1301.winmx.com c3317.z1301.winmx.com c3318.z1301.winmx.com c3319.z1301.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3310.z1302.winmx.com c3311.z1302.winmx.com c3312.z1302.winmx.com c3313.z1302.winmx.com c3314.z1302.winmx.com c3315.z1302.winmx.com c3316.z1302.winmx.com c3317.z1302.winmx.com c3318.z1302.winmx.com c3319.z1302.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3310.z1303.winmx.com c3311.z1303.winmx.com c3312.z1303.winmx.com c3313.z1303.winmx.com c3314.z1303.winmx.com c3315.z1303.winmx.com c3316.z1303.winmx.com c3317.z1303.winmx.com c3318.z1303.winmx.com c3319.z1303.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3310.z1304.winmx.com c3311.z1304.winmx.com c3312.z1304.winmx.com c3313.z1304.winmx.com c3314.z1304.winmx.com c3315.z1304.winmx.com c3316.z1304.winmx.com c3317.z1304.winmx.comc3318.z1304.winmx.com c3319.z1304.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3310.z1305.winmx.com c3311.z1305.winmx.com c3312.z1305.winmx.com c3313.z1305.winmx.com c3314.z1305.winmx.com c3315.z1305.winmx.com c3316.z1305.winmx.com c3317.z1305.winmx.com c3318.z1305.winmx.com c3319.z1305.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3310.z1306.winmx.com c3311.z1306.winmx.com c3312.z1306.winmx.com c3313.z1306.winmx.com c3314.z1306.winmx.com c3315.z1306.winmx.com c3316.z1306.winmx.com c3317.z1306.winmx.comc3318.z1306.winmx.com c3319.z1306.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3520.z1301.winmx.com c3521.z1301.winmx.com c3522.z1301.winmx.com c3523.z1301.winmx.com c3524.z1301.winmx.com c3525.z1301.winmx.com c3526.z1301.winmx.com c3527.z1301.winmx.com c3528.z1301.winmx.com c3529.z1301.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3520.z1302.winmx.com c3521.z1302.winmx.com c3522.z1302.winmx.com c3523.z1302.winmx.com c3524.z1302.winmx.com c3525.z1302.winmx.com c3526.z1302.winmx.com c3527.z1302.winmx.com 3528.z1302.winmx.com c3529.z1302.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3520.z1303.winmx.com c3521.z1303.winmx.com c3522.z1303.winmx.com c3523.z1303.winmx.com c3524.z1303.winmx.com c3525.z1303.winmx.com c3526.z1303.winmx.com c3527.z1303.winmx.com c3528.z1303.winmx.com c3529.z1303.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3520.z1304.winmx.com c3521.z1304.winmx.com c3522.z1304.winmx.com c3523.z1304.winmx.com c3524.z1304.winmx.com c3525.z1304.winmx.com c3526.z1304.winmx.com c3527.z1304.winmx.com c3528.z1304.winmx.com c3529.z1304.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3520.z1305.winmx.com c3521.z1305.winmx.com c3522.z1305.winmx.com c3523.z1305.winmx.com c3524.z1305.winmx.com c3525.z1305.winmx.com c3526.z1305.winmx.com c3527.z1305.winmx.com c3528.z1305.winmx.com c3529.z1305.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3520.z1306.winmx.com c3521.z1306.winmx.com c3522.z1306.winmx.com c3523.z1306.winmx.comc3524.z1306.winmx.com c3525.z1306.winmx.com c3526.z1306.winmx.com c3527.z1306.winmx.com c3528.z1306.winmx.comc3529.z1306.winmx.com
O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ATIPTA] "C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel\atiptaxx.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nod32kui] "C:\Program Files\Eset\nod32kui.exe" /WAITSERVICE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [PPMemCheck] C:\PROGRA~1\PESTPA~1\PPMemCheck.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [PestPatrol Control Center] C:\PROGRA~1\PESTPA~1\PPControl.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CookiePatrol] C:\PROGRA~1\PESTPA~1\CookiePatrol.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [KernelFaultCheck] %systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0 -k
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [MSConfig] C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\MSConfig.exe /auto
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
O6 - HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions present
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office10\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O9 - Extra button: Yahoo! Messenger - {E5D12C4E-7B4F-11D3-B5C9-0050045C3C96} - C:\PROGRA~1\Yahoo!\MESSEN~1\YPager.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Yahoo! Messenger - {E5D12C4E-7B4F-11D3-B5C9-0050045C3C96} - C:\PROGRA~1\Yahoo!\MESSEN~1\YPager.exe
O23 - Service: Ati HotKey Poller - ATI Technologies Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
O23 - Service: ATI Smart - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ati2sgag.exe
O23 - Service: NOD32 Kernel Service (NOD32krn) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Eset\nod32krn.exe
O23 - Service: TuneUp WinStyler Theme Service (TUWinStylerThemeSvc) - TuneUp Software GmbH - C:\Program Files\TuneUp Utilities 2004\WinStylerThemeSvc.exe
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Please print out or copy this page to Notepad. Make sure to work through the fixes in the exact order it is mentioned below. If there's anything that you don't understand, ask your question(s) before proceeding with the fixes. You should 'not' have any open browsers when you are following the procedures below.

Go to My Computer->Tools->Folder Options->View tab:
* Under the Hidden files and folders heading, select Show hidden files and folders.
* Uncheck the Hide protected operating system files (recommended) option.
* Click Yes to confirm and then click OK.

For the options that you checked/enabled earlier, you may uncheck them after your log is clean. If we ask you to fix a program that you use or want to keep, please post back saying that (we don't know every program that exists, so we may tell you to delete a program that we think is bad to keep).

Make sure you downloaded, installed, updated and ran these programs (run in Safe Mode) already - Ad-aware, Spybot and Ewido. If you didn't, do them now. For more information, go to http://www.greyknight17.com/spyware.htm

Download Hoster http://www.greyknight17.com/spy/Hoster.exe and run it. Choose the 'Restore Original Hosts' button and press OK.

Download CleanUp! http://cleanup.stevengould.org/ (Alternate Link if main link don't work - http://www.greyknight17.com/spy/CleanUp.exe ) and install it. CleanUp! deletes EVERYTHING out of your temp/temporary folders, it does not make backups. If you have any documents or programs that are saved in any Temporary Folders, please make a backup of these before running CleanUp!. Don't run it yet.

Restart your computer and boot into Safe Mode by hitting the F8 key repeatedly until a menu shows up (and choose Safe Mode from the list). In some systems, this may be the F5 key, so try that if F8 doesn't work. Make sure to close any open browsers.


Run a scan in HijackThis. Check each of the following and hit 'Fix checked' (after checking them) if they still exist (make sure not to miss any):

O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3310.z1301.winmx.com c3311.z1301.winmx.com c3312.z1301.winmx.com c3313.z1301.winmx.com c3314.z1301.winmx.com c3315.z1301.winmx.com c3316.z1301.winmx.com c3317.z1301.winmx.com c3318.z1301.winmx.com c3319.z1301.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3310.z1302.winmx.com c3311.z1302.winmx.com c3312.z1302.winmx.com c3313.z1302.winmx.com c3314.z1302.winmx.com c3315.z1302.winmx.com c3316.z1302.winmx.com c3317.z1302.winmx.com c3318.z1302.winmx.com c3319.z1302.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3310.z1303.winmx.com c3311.z1303.winmx.com c3312.z1303.winmx.com c3313.z1303.winmx.com c3314.z1303.winmx.com c3315.z1303.winmx.com c3316.z1303.winmx.com c3317.z1303.winmx.com c3318.z1303.winmx.com c3319.z1303.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3310.z1304.winmx.com c3311.z1304.winmx.com c3312.z1304.winmx.com c3313.z1304.winmx.com c3314.z1304.winmx.com c3315.z1304.winmx.com c3316.z1304.winmx.com c3317.z1304.winmx.comc3318.z1304.winmx.com c3319.z1304.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3310.z1305.winmx.com c3311.z1305.winmx.com c3312.z1305.winmx.com c3313.z1305.winmx.com c3314.z1305.winmx.com c3315.z1305.winmx.com c3316.z1305.winmx.com c3317.z1305.winmx.com c3318.z1305.winmx.com c3319.z1305.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3310.z1306.winmx.com c3311.z1306.winmx.com c3312.z1306.winmx.com c3313.z1306.winmx.com c3314.z1306.winmx.com c3315.z1306.winmx.com c3316.z1306.winmx.com c3317.z1306.winmx.comc3318.z1306.winmx.com c3319.z1306.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3520.z1301.winmx.com c3521.z1301.winmx.com c3522.z1301.winmx.com c3523.z1301.winmx.com c3524.z1301.winmx.com c3525.z1301.winmx.com c3526.z1301.winmx.com c3527.z1301.winmx.com c3528.z1301.winmx.com c3529.z1301.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3520.z1302.winmx.com c3521.z1302.winmx.com c3522.z1302.winmx.com c3523.z1302.winmx.com c3524.z1302.winmx.com c3525.z1302.winmx.com c3526.z1302.winmx.com c3527.z1302.winmx.com 3528.z1302.winmx.com c3529.z1302.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3520.z1303.winmx.com c3521.z1303.winmx.com c3522.z1303.winmx.com c3523.z1303.winmx.com c3524.z1303.winmx.com c3525.z1303.winmx.com c3526.z1303.winmx.com c3527.z1303.winmx.com c3528.z1303.winmx.com c3529.z1303.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3520.z1304.winmx.com c3521.z1304.winmx.com c3522.z1304.winmx.com c3523.z1304.winmx.com c3524.z1304.winmx.com c3525.z1304.winmx.com c3526.z1304.winmx.com c3527.z1304.winmx.com c3528.z1304.winmx.com c3529.z1304.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3520.z1305.winmx.com c3521.z1305.winmx.com c3522.z1305.winmx.com c3523.z1305.winmx.com c3524.z1305.winmx.com c3525.z1305.winmx.com c3526.z1305.winmx.com c3527.z1305.winmx.com c3528.z1305.winmx.com c3529.z1305.winmx.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.195.155.5 c3520.z1306.winmx.com c3521.z1306.winmx.com c3522.z1306.winmx.com c3523.z1306.winmx.comc3524.z1306.winmx.com c3525.z1306.winmx.com c3526.z1306.winmx.com c3527.z1306.winmx.com c3528.z1306.winmx.comc3529.z1306.winmx.com
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [KernelFaultCheck] %systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0 -k
O6 - HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions present<<<<< unless you put it in yourself



Run CleanUp! and click on the Options button. Uncheck 'Scan local drives for temporary files'. Also uncheck those two Newsgroup entries if you don't want to delete them. Click OK and then click on the CleanUp! button. Let it run. After it's done, choose Yes to logoff.

Restart and run a new HijackThis scan. Save the log file and post it here.

Please run an online scan at http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm
Make sure you click the "Free Online Virus Scan" in the upper right hand corner of the page under the Free use Activescan header. We do NOT want the default spyXposer scan.
  1. Click on the Scan your PC button & a 'pop up' window shall appear. * ensure that your pop up blocker doesn't block it
  2. Click On 'Scan Now'
  3. Enter your e-mail address & click 'Scan Now' ...begins downloading Panda's ActiveX controls.- 8MB
  4. Begin the scan by selecting My Computer
    * You needn't remain online while it's doing the scan but you have to re-connect after it has finished to see the report.
  5. If it finds any malware, it will offer you a report. Click on see report
  6. Then click Save report
  7. Post the contents of the report in your next reply along with a new HijackThis log.
· Turn off the real time scanner of any existing antivirus program while performing the online scan
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Old 12-01-2005, 11:39 AM   #6 (permalink)
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The WinMX stuff is fine, I added them. Thanks for the help but that stuff isn't the problem, I need to get rid of the trojans, which none of them are. I've used Nod32, Ad-Aware SE, Pest Patrol, Spybot S&D, and a-squared, all of them found different things, but Nod32 was the only one that found the trojans but it couldn't remove them. I'm going to go scan with TrendMicro and Panda online scanners now...
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Go ahead and post your panda and trendmicro logs when you get them.
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Meh, Nod32 found them and got them this time, dunno why it couldn't just do that before... thanks again.
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Reset hidden/system files and folders

Windows XP
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  • Click Start.
  • Open My Computer.
  • Select the Tools menu and click Folder Options.
  • Select the View tab.
  • Deselect the Show hidden files and folders option.
  • Select the Hide file extensions for known types option.
  • Select the Hide protected operating system files option.
  • Click Yes to confirm.
  • Click OK.

Windows 2000
===============
  • Open My Computer.
  • Select the Tools menu and click Folder Options.
  • Select the View tab.
  • Select the Advanced settings box option.
  • Select the Hidden files Folders.
  • Deselect the Show all files option.
  • Click Yes to confirm.
  • Click OK.

Windows ME
===============
  • Open My Computer.
  • Select the Tools menu and click Folder Options.
  • Select the View tab.
  • Deselect the Show hidden files and folders option.
  • Select the Hide protected operating system files option.
  • Click Yes to confirm.
  • Click OK.

Windows 95/98/98SE
===============
  • Open My Computer.
  • Select the View
  • Select the Folder Options option.
  • Select the View tab. option.
  • Select the Advance Advanced settings box option.
  • Select the Hidden files folder.
  • Deselect the Show all files option
  • Click Apply to confirm.
  • Click OK.



Create a new System Restore point

Windows XP
===============
  • Click Start >> Run - type SYSDM.CPL & press Enter
  • Select the System Restore Tab
  • Tick on the checkbox - "Turn off System Restore on all drives"
  • Click Apply
  • Then untick the same checkbox & click OK
  • This deletes ALL restore points that had the infection and creates a clean one

Windows ME
===============
  • Click the Start tab.
  • Select the Settings option.
  • Select the Control Panel option.
  • Double Click the System icon Performance tab option.
  • Select File System
  • Select the Troubleshooting tab
  • Check the Disable System Restore box
  • Click Apply to confirm.
  • Click OK.

Reboot the PC and repeat the above procedure again
When you get to this option
  • Uncheck the Disable System Restore box

For Windows ME..we MUST create a new restore point now as Windows ME will not create one automatically until the computer has been on for 10 hours or 24 hours has passed. To create a new restore point follow the procedure below.
  • Click the Start button.
  • Point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click System Restore.
  • Choose Create a restore point, and then click Next.
  • In the Restore point description box, type a name for your restore point, and then click Next.
    Click OK



Enable Windows Auto Update
  • Go to Start>Run - type wuaucpl.cpl
  • Tick on the checkbox - "Keep my computer up to date"
  • Under settings, choose "Automatically download the updates, and install them on the schedule that I specify".
  • Click on "OK".

Please visit Microsoft's Window's Update Page and install the latest service packs, patch’s and security updates for your system.


Recommended Protection Programs

Now that you are clean, to help protect your computer in the future I recommend that you get the following free programs:
  • SpywareBlaster to help prevent spyware from installing in the first place.
  • SpywareGuard to catch and block spyware before it can execute.
  • IESpy-Ad to block access to malicious websites so you cannot be redirected to them from an infected site or email.
  • WinPatrol to monitor any changes that programs make to the registry.

If you do not have a firewall, here are 4 free ones available for personal use:

In today’s world you MUST have an Antivirus program. If you do not have one, here are 3 FREE ones available for personal use:



In light of your recent issue, I'm sure you'll like to avoid any future infections. Please take a look at these well written articles
Please stay safe out there and take the helpful advice that’s been given. The goal here is to prevent the adware/spyware/virus/worms from getting on the system in the first place.

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Old 12-01-2005, 09:20 PM   #10 (permalink)
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