My little brother has been complaining about being unable to connect to the internet. So I checked his computer and found something called gamevance32.exe.
I looked it up and it says that this is a key logger/virus. After reformatting his computer his internet works again, I think it was somehow hogging bandwidth.
I'm just curious what this thing could have been using the bandwidth for and whether anybody thinks I should alarm my parents, possible even try to convince them to freeze their bank card and get a new one since I don't know how long this thing has been sitting on his computer.
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 17. July 2008 @ 15:50
Here's your security lesson for today: tell your brother that just because it is related to games, you should download and install it.
Gamevance (which is a gaming network), was probably what your brother installed, and is also known to be a rogue gaming program, which means that it is connected to malware. The bandwidth being used could have been gamevance32.exe (part of Gamevance) connecting back to home to report the latest information which has been gained by Gamevance from spying on your computer.
Always research anything before you install it. That is one of the most important parts to computer security.
If you're worried about how long the file has been on the computer, just ask your brother how long it has been since he installed Gamevance. That would be it.
Life is but a dream; you dont feel any pain unless you want to or you fall off the bed. Success is relative; the more success the more relatives.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing. To be or not to be; thats a dumb question.
GameVance is NOT a virus, malware, keylogger or Trojan, it?s Adware and says so in the EULA.
Quote:Originally Posted by GameVance
Gamevance is an Ad-Supported community.
The Gamevance community is ad-supported which means in order to become a member and compete for prizes in our daily tournaments you will occasionally receive various forms of advertising such as sponsorships, sweepstakes, banners, text links or pop-ups.
There are methods to stop the Pop-Ups but that will sometimes disable the program?.
There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading; The few who learn by observation;
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves...
