Re: Winkui,exe spiking CPU every 2 seconds - Urgent
From: Dan L (gunshyguy@hotmail.com)
Date: 10/01/02
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From: "Dan L" <gunshyguy@hotmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:27:44 -0700
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Brian Flanagan wrote:
> I have a process called Winkui.exe that is running on a 2k Pro box
> that I maintain. The user somehow got this exe running and it is
> spiking the CPU every 2-3 seconds constantly. I searched the server
> for a file w/ that name with no luck. I could not stop the process by
> killing it via taskman processes. I had to download Sysinternals
> Process watcher (or something similear) which enabled me to kill the
> app. I have no idea where this came from or what it was trying to
> do... I searched google and MSDN for anything regarding "Winkui.exe"
> with no results found. The registry did find some hits for it but I
> couldnt gain any detaails other than it was called Legacy_Winkui.
>
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what this was and how to get it off the
> system? Once I killed it, it has not returned however I can not reboot
> the server now, so aftrer a reboot it may return.
>
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
>
> Brian Flanagan
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