Thanks ! Re: why got \??\ in the path ?

From: Polaris (etpolaris_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/24/05


Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:33:02 -0700

I appriciate your help.

Polaris

"Polaris" <etpolaris@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Experts:
>
> Wrote a small program on XP to get a list of running processes. I used the
> GetModuleFileNameEx, EnumProcessModules to go through each process and get
> the process path, most of the returned path is ok, but noticed strange one
> below:
>
> \??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.exe (0x4A680000)
>
> Anyone knows why there is \??\ at the front of the path? Does that mean
> the csrss.exe is a virus? In task manager, the csrss.exe is running and
> cannot be stopped.
>
> Any thought is appriciated.
>
> Thanks In Advance!
>
> Polaris
>
>



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