question about startsys.exe

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 11/19/03 

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:05:58 -0800

i recently had a problem with a couple of computers on my
network where machines were had startsys.exe running as a
process and there was a configuration manager in my list
of services adding startsys.exe into my startup group.
does anyone know why this happened? is it virus related?

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