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My firewall's antispyware updated, scanned for the hell of it, and it found only a registry key of an mIRC trojan... I'm wondering if this may pose a threat, or if it was just the remains of something that once was? Haven't even noticed any different processes running on my computer lately, everything is the same.

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What firewall returned this result? Did any other anti-spyware application (Windows Defender, Ad-Aware, Spybot, ewido, etc...) return any similar results?

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Zone Alarm returned the result, it didn't say specifically what it was, I did scan with Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy and got no results. I deleted it when I scanned with Zone Alarm though which I probably shouldn't have, could have quarantined. There's no way I know of to really retrieve what it was, but it was something like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/.chaf.

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I personally have had issues with ZoneAlarm. I don't trust it as it's way too resource heavy. The result you got was a false positive, so don't worry about it. :P

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<3 Tarun! Thanks! And soon as my ZAP subscription is up I'm definately gonna try out another firewall, I think you reccomended Outpost.

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