RE: Processes problems

From: Andee39 (Andee39_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:21:02 -0800

I've been at that site and while it was extremely helpful to me in showing
what the different processes are and how to disable, etc it didn't tell me
what to do in the case of finding the process in a folder other than the one
it should be in. Any ideas on that? Thanks again!

"Andee39" wrote:

> Hi,
> I hope I'm in the right forum! I have quite a few processes running on my
> computer. I run AdAware and Spybot frequently but I was still concerned. I
> Googled several of the processes and read that the file should only appear in
> a specific folder; if it didn't it could be sypware, trojan, etc. When I
> searched on my computer for the first few files, I found each file appeared
> in several other folders besides the Windows/System32 folder. However, the
> other folders the files are appearing in don't appear to be anything bad.
> One is Windows/ServicePack Files and another is something like
> Windows/Prefetch??? Should I be concerned about these other folders and if
> so, can I just delete the extra files and that will take care of the problem?
> I read about a program called Security Task Manager that is supposed to help
> with these type issues. Anyone familiar with it and if it works? All help
> would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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