This post won’t make you smarter. Move on. You have been warned 😉

This article on Wired talks about Mikko Hypponen’s war on malware. I haven’t read it 🙂

What caught my attention was a screenshot of Hiew showing some err… malware.

It triggered my interest so I investigated it by looking at it closer:

Zoom. Enhance. Hiew 7.10 has been used. Current version is 8.22. This is an old screenshot.

Zoom. Enhance. With the right equipment it can be enhanced

Hiew: AgtX0408.exe

Googling around for AgtX0408.exe brings us the following link:

http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/agent2/AgtX0408.exe

Downloaded the file

The visual comparison brings us the following result:

Bingo.

Conclusion: image recycling at work & this is not a malware.