Re: Unknown pop-up on taskbar.
From: DanG (DanG_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/15/05
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:03:03 -0800
Malke,
Thank you for responding. So far I have only had a chance to boot my
computer in safe mode and ran my virus scan and two spyware scans. One with
the MS antispyware tool and the other with a yahoo antivirus tool. The
checks all came back negative for any problems. I also did some research on
this problem and found two other people whom seem to be having this same
problem. I will put their initial complaints here along with a link to were
I found there posts and I'm also going to try to contact these people to see
if they are still having this same problem. One of these people seems to
have a spyware problem but the other person is sort of like me and doesn't
seem to know what is causing this pop up. I have a feeling that we all have
some program in common that may be causing this.
Thank you once again,
Dan
First person with the same problem: Every 10 minutes or so a new program
pops up in my taskbar (Win XP Home) and then immediately disappears... No
real harm to my computer, but annoying, and it slows down whatever I'm doing
for a second or two. I can't tell what it is, it could be a program I
actually want running, or it could be some sort of virus; the icon on the
taskbar is just a generic .exe icon, and clicking on it in the taskbar before
it disappears does nothing. I've run Adaware and SpyBot. Any ideas?
Address where I found this post:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=60970
Second person with the same problem: Hi, I seem to have something like an
.exe symbol pop up in my taskbar randomly. There is no window that pops up on
the screen so I would assume it's something that runs and looks/scans and
then disappears. It pops up for about 3 seconds. I've tried to click on it
when it pops out but nothing happens. I've run spybot, trojan hunter,
CWSshredder, AVG and MS Anti-spyware. I cleaned and fixed everthything they
had found. What kept appearing though were files like Blazefind, Isearchtech
and windates. But I believe they were successfully removed.....I hope.
Address where I found this post:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13817775?hilite=msn+messenger
"Malke" wrote:
> DanG wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> > I'm trying to trouble shoot something on my computer and I'm just
> > wondering if anyone can help me out? There is a button that continues
> > to pop up on my taskbar and I just want to find out what program or
> > process it is causing it
> > or if it is a security risk to me? This button has no label on it
> > and only
> > shows up for about a second. I've tried to click on it when it
> > appears but
> > it is usually to quick and I don't get anything. The very few times I
> > think
> > I did click on it nothing happens and it just disapears again. This
> > pop up on the taskbar happens several time when my computer is on and
> > it is not only
> > when I am on the internet, it happens pretty much at random. I have
> > norton internet security 2004 and ran a virus check with it but found
> > nothing, I also ran MS antispyware tool, yahoo antispyware tool, and
> > spybot but I also
> > found nothing. I also have Zonealarm and have tried to block all the
> > programs on its list from conneting to the internet but I can't seem
> > to stop this pop up on the task bar.
> >
> > Just wondering if anybody can help me troubleshoot this issue,
> > Thank you so much for reading this,
> > Dan
>
> Here are a few things to do:
>
> 1. Run ProcessExplorer from Systernals.
> 2. Run Task Manager and keep it open.
> 3. Do all scans for malware in Safe Mode.
> 4. Do clean-boot troubleshooting per:
> Clean Boot - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=310353
> and How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP -
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560
>
> Malke
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>
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