Re: Lost Property Window and MP3W.EXE

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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 21:03:28 -0700

Google does not show it, that often means a virus or possible spyware.
Make sure the tools you used were updated in the last week.
Try alternatives as well, another may catch what was previously
missed:

See the yellow section of this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

-- 
Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
"Al Ellis" <offsite98@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:3DC81C64-9350-4E99-86FE-1877AA47D7B1@microsoft.com...
>I have noticed a process in the Task Manager called MP3W.EXE running 
>up to
> 95-98% of my CPU cycles almost constantly. I have run AdWare and 
> Norton's
> Antivirus to detemine if this was a foreign file to no avail.  To 
> further
> investigate, I tried to isolate the program through the Services 
> folder by
> changing through the properties most services running as "Automatic" 
> to
> "Manual" and then stopping them.  With most of my services now 
> "Stopped" and
> the MP3W file still running, I have found I can't change the 
> properties from
> Manual to Automate because the property window will not display.  I 
> have
> tried to reload Windows 2000 Prof to resolve my dilemna but Windows 
> installer
> says there is another installation in process and terminates.
>
> I have searched all hard drives for MP3W.EXE using Explorer Find but 
> to no
> avail.
>
> I fear I have compounded the problem and now can't tell if this MP3W 
> is a
> virus or a system file.  Is there anything I can do to resolve this
> situation? 

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