Help!

[Aberforth's Goat]

Hi guys - I need advice!

About an hour ago, my firewall asked whether I wanted to allow
"sndvol32.exe" to access the internet. Since "Sndvol.32.exe" is supposed to
control Windows' volume settings (I'm on Windows 2000), I can't imagine any
possible reason why it whould be dialing up the internet - and am scared
that I may have a virus.

I ran a complete virus check with an updated McAfee VirusScan file, no bad
news. (That is, I had just received an infected attachement, but I had
already noticed it and was about to delete it, unopened, anyway.) I ran a
few internet searches and discovered that a version of the I-Love-You virus
does fiddle with that file - however, McAfee registered neither the file
itself nor its dll cache buddy as infected. Also, they both seem to work
normally.

I can't find anything else wrong with my system, but I'm still a worried.
Can anyone confirm whether SndVol32.exe is capable of phoning home?

Until I have this cleared up, please regard any mail you receive from me
with a lot of suspicion.

Assuming you don't already ... ;-)

Bleat!

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
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"Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been
bravery...."