Re: spysweeper keeps popping up asking to remove/keep startup items

From: Br0wnbear (brownbearat_at_canadadotcom.com)
Date: 11/09/04 

Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 09:29:08 -0500

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 05:28:02 -0800, "Sean"
<Sean@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi
>On my windows XP Professional PC I have spysweeper installed. While I am
>working away it keeps popping up asking to keep or remove various startup
>items. Its a different startup item name each time. These are the details
>of the item:
>Startup Item: egFHY9Ex (This name changes each time)
>inetkw
>CommonName
>Location: C:\PROGRA~1\vowpuqt\qpwostw.exe
>Registry or startup Folder: HKLM:Run
>
>Any ideas of what it can be? Ive turned off spysweeper for the monent.

In addition to what Malke has added, you may want to do an on-line
scan at one of the following also.

BitDefender:
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/license.php

Computer Associates:
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx

DialogueScience:
http://www.antivir.ru/english/www_av/

F-Secure:
http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml

Freedom Online scanner:
http://www.freedom.net/viruscenter/index.html

Kaspersky:
http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus

McAfee:
http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/mfs/default.asp

Panda:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/

RAV
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/

Symantec:
http://security.symantec.com/

Trend:
http://housecall.antivirus.com
http://housecall.trendmicro.com

hth
John Brown
Bears are always happy, we get to hibern8 and
now I am going back to sleep

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