Re: Unknown pop-up on taskbar.
From: Malke (notreally_at_invalid.invalid)
Date: 11/15/05
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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 05:35:25 -0800
DanG wrote:
> 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
>
Here are general malware removal steps:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware
You might try using some of the tools mentioned, particularly a
combination of HijackThis, ProcessExplorer, and possibly Killbox.
Again, running Task Manager and doing a clean boot may help track down
the culprit.
Also, what printer do you have installed? Try disabling any printer
services that you see when you use msconfig (see clean boot
troubleshooting for details).
See if the issue occurs in Safe Mode. If not, you're a little closer to
tracking it down.
Malke
-- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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