as i had said several times, if no window pops up, screaming at you, saying “YOU ARE INFECTED” you’re clean 
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alright thanks just wanted to clear that issue about the norton scanner stopping on the faux virus part and continues to scan normaly with no problems and with no infection. Now i feel calm thx to you. ^^
btw Hell, does that happens to you too? when you scan your computer and it stops on that file,still having the scan file count going up and continuing to scan the rest of your computer untill all of it is scanned?
Message Edited by Ryan on 11-02-2008 07:23 PM
thats exactly what happened to me, so i did research and stumbled upon this forum
Ohhhhh. Well same here i did some research too and i came onto this fourm so my question to u is, does this file still appear on your scanner and does it continue to scan the rest of ur files?
It will always show up as it is in the Norton Virus Definitions registry.
If you've ever used Spybot when scanning along the bottom of the pages it goes through the full list of everything it is looking for, makes interesting reading. When I first saw it, I thought my son had been on all these porn sites and gave him a hard time, had to apologise once I realised what was happening lol.
Elaine
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Alright just wanted to know what was it their in the first place. Cause I never go to those X Rated sites because I know they have alot of dangerest viruses. So once I first saw that I was like what how did I get a virus? Then I saw my scanner count going up and just passed it and continued on until all my files were proper scan. Now I know its just something that norton put to check if you have that file on your computer. Thank god I dont have it or any other kind of viruses. lol
I also have carny ride on my Computer now - However ir crashes the computer every time the Norton scan tries to read it (after a long pause) Not only that , if I do an Adwarescan, Trend PCIllin Or Computer associates scan , the same thing happens - It also crashes on a Windows Disk Cleanup scan -
Hi all,
I've read all of the back and forth on carny ride. I understand from some of the last posts that if I've not been asked to install anything or if my system scan doesn't give me any alerts re. virus infection then I may be OK. Here's my question: as some of the people in the earlier posts, the full system scan stops after scanning only about 5000 files and tells me its finished. I know there are more files to scan but it's not scanning them.
Initially, the scan was getting stalled on FAUXVIRUS/carny ride.exe. Then it told me I had a cookie, which I got rid of. Now it just stops after scanning 5000 or so files. Does anyone have any advice.
Also can someone recommend a good root kit scanner. Is there anything special I need to know about using a root kit scanner?
Many thanks!
I have used Prevx CSI as a Deep Root scanner but some people have said it is unstable & gives false positives. I uninstalled it after it froze a couple of times. I do recommend SUPERAntiSpyware (which recently removed a trojan from my computer) & Malwarebytes anti-Malware. I have only just downloaded the freeware version of the latter & it does a 2 hour full scan!
This happened to me too, but I think i took care of it!!! Everyone has been sayin how it feezes up and are not sure if they took care of it. Well This is what i did and my pc is back to normal!. 1st I hit Ctrl/Alt/Delete together to pull up the pop Windows Task manager. Use this to close any programs running. Go to your start menu and choose the search option usually located towards the bottom right. Search under All files and type in defragment. Open the defragment file and run it, usually takes 30 mins to an hour to do. @nd now clean out your cookies and if you have the Clean up program that sounds like a tolit flushhing, well run that too, it’s a great and funny clean up sysytem. 3rd Now that you have done these, restart you computer. 4th open you norton security and run the quick scan for viruses. 5th when you are finished with the quick scan run the comprehensive scan. when I was done with all this my Norton called the virus…Troyjan.ByteVerify 6thy I restarted my PC one more time and everything has been working fine. Hope this helps someone cause this virus was a nasty lil one!
It sounds like at least two problems are being discussed simultaneously: 1) What to do if Norton (or any AV program) actually finds a file called carny_ride.exe, and 2) What to do if Norton hangs when running saying it's looking for /fauxvirus/carny_ride.exe.
I have the latter problem -- Norton Internet Security 2007 suddenly started to hang indefinitely and say it was looking for /fauxvirus/carny_ride.exe. It never completed the full scheduled scan; I had to Ctrl-Alt-Delete out of it. But it never said it found a virus, either.
Since I was using a 90-day trial copy of Norton Internet Security 2007 that came with my new ThinkPad, and the trial was about to end, my fix was simple. I bought a new copy of Norton Internet Security 2009 (which has a reprogrammed and much faster scanning kernel), uninstalled Norton Internet Security 2007, and installed Norton Internet Security 2009. I ran a scan, and it didn't hang, and it didn't find any problems.
I have to believe what some others have said that hanging on /fauxvirus/carny_ride.exe is likely some sort of a programming bug in Norton Internet Security 2007. It does not mean you have an infection.
That is, of course, separate from the first issue -- if Norton or any other AV or malware detector indicates you actually have an infection. But just getting stuck looking doesn't necessarily mean that you do.
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hello, fellow Norton Internet Security users,
I am a 13 year old kid whose computer has been plagued by this "c:\FAUXVIRUS\carny ride.exe" file. currently, I am performing a full scan on my CP and so far i have about 98,000 files scanned. I too, have seen the file being scanned when i just did a normal scan in "commonly infected and start up files" and for about a minute and a half or two, scanned it. then it said that i had a tracking cookie. i got rid of the tracking cookie,(note: i just did this about 10-15 min ago) and i went searching in my c: drive for the FAUXVIRUS file, and nothing came up. I read through this entire thread and became very concerned, then relieved, then very concerned again. now, i have seen on this thread that this file could be malware or not be. i am very confused by this. I don't know if I am safe or not. I have my virus, adware, and spyware definitions TODAY, and I havent seen this file. i have done multiple scans and have seen this file, and like many of you, got a bit concerned or suspicious. with me, very solicitous about this kind of topic, automatically assumed that i had been infected with a virus. now, a lot of you have not seen this file show up on symantec as a virus, and neither have I. and since i am very naive, i think i am ok if i dont see a popup that says in big bold letters; YOU HAVE A SECURITY PROBLEM! TAKE ACTION NOW!, YOU HAVE BEEN INFECTED! and vice versa. so, i am wondering since i have read about many symptoms of this so-called malware, are there a variety of strains of this virus\spyware\malware\worm\adware etc? i really need to know. i thought i was safe with Norton set up. Maybe that was just my naivety. haha.
xbox360owns: Here's the thing -- I don't think you're being "plagued by the c:\FAUXVIRUS\carney_ride.exe file" if Norton can't FIND the file of that name. If it's merely endless searching for it, that may be the same bug I ran across.
If it actually found the file and it were truly malware or a virus, Norton is very good at raising all sorts of alarms, as a couple of other users here have noted.
That leads me to wonder if those here who were concerned about the endless-searching behavior and then ran other AV or malware detection software and found something else (not carney_ride.exe) simply had the Norton hang as a reason to search more diligently to uncover other, unrelated infections they may have had -- perhaps that Norton itself would have found had it not been hung up, or just simply other items it didn't detect due to configuation or other reasons. That's speculation on my part.
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well, maybe (keyword maybe) this whole thing is a fake virus, (indicated by the name “faux” in the name of the folder) made by symantec, and it tells you that you have been infected with this file and it tells you that you must renew or buy a subscription of Norton. but the buying part is out of the picture for most of us since we have registered copies of NIS. i am thinking of this because i had windows antivirus, i dont know what the name is, on my old XP computer. (i am using Vista now). i didnt have it renewed, and one day i recieved a message from the program saying that i have been infected with variant of the “Blaster Sasser Virus”. I later did some research and it said that it is a fake virus made by the AV program to get the user into buying their products.
I think this must be some Norton bug. I doubt if it is a real virus as the battery of protection I have would have spotted it.
Nothing at all on this entire string helped.
Yes, it is a virus - suppposedly taking you on a carny ride of fun (for the virus writer)
all the posts here say...its not a virus, or just remove it by doing "these actions"
none of which helped
this thing shut my computer down
told me I should download a program
What javascript box, actually says "hey, your name here, your computer is infected with a deadly virus, click here to fix it" it actually said "your name here, as it couldn't find my name in the computer
I was running norton, the newest one - I tried all the suggestions, each and every one, including a saphos download for a rootkit removal tool
nothing at all worked
So I downloaded Kapersky free trail, and guess what...its all gone
why did norton not recognize this?
I had tried to re-install windows, losing lots of programs, and my documents. I still have my old program files, but none of the programs are in "add/remove programs" anymore, and many dont work/.
I think I am over norton, unless they can come up with a very good explination of why they didnt catch this or offer ANY explination
Agreed. If folks here reporting the problem of Norton hanging when it tries to find something called /fauxvirus/carney_ride.exe are all using Norton Internet Security 2007, it would seem to be a bug, with Norton searching for a non-existant file as part of its routine scan. As I noted, the problem went away when I uninstalled Norton Internet Secuirty 2007 and installed the newly reprogrammed Norton Internet Security 2009. Other scans with other products found nothing, also.
This seems to be a completely different issue than those who are reporting an actual virus infection that they can't eradicate. Norton just getting stuck searching for a file is not the same as being infected by that file if it actually exists. What's confusing is both of those types of conversations are taking place in this thread simultaneously.
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Panaroma, what you're describing is different than the behavior of Norton "hanging" while doing a routine scan, trying to find a file that apparently is not on the hard disk.
It appears, from what you've posted, you actually responded to a Javascript pop-up box on a Web site that said you were infected, and you downloaded something from a link in that dialogue box that infected you, perhaps the real carney_ride.exe virus/malware. And Norton didn't catch it when it was downloaded, based on what you write.
I'm not saying that's a good thing -- it's not -- but it's also a different issue than Norton getting stuck in the middle of scan looking for a file, which is the other behavior folks are reporting here. That scan-hang behavior is apparently a Norton bug.
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Let’s HOPE that. it seems likely since we all are getting it.
I wish Symantec would own to it if it is a bug. I have scanned my computer with a 2 hour Malwarebytes Anti-malware program plus a 55 minute SUPERAntiSpyware scan more than once amongst other software & apart from some tracking cookies none of them have found anything. I update both MBAM & SAS daily as well. I am sure the dreaded CARNY RIDE exists but I don’t think anyone here actually has the virus.