Re: Random-named process in task manager

From: Malke (notreally_at_invalid.invalid)
Date: 11/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:19:36 -0800

middlesbrough@hotmail.com wrote:

>
> Malke wrote:
>> middlesbrough@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > There appears to be a 6-letter randomly named porcess in Task
>> > Manager
>> > on a WinXP SP2 computer every time it starts up. I've installed
>> > both Spybot and MS Antispyware, made sure both were up-to-date and
>> > ran scans (computer has Trend Micro Officescan as AV). Spybot
>> > cleared out a few usual spyware bits and pieces then MS Antispyware
>> > found nothing. There is a process that has a different 6-letter
>> > name each time that looks a bit dodgy. I'm thinking it's
>> > spyware/malware but obviously something Spybot or MS Antispyware
>> > can't detect. I'm scouring the net for anything that might give a
>> > clue but I'll post this to see if anyone might know how to stop
>> > this tricky little bugger.
>> >

>
> Malke,
>
> Thankls for your reply - after a few investigations, it turns out that
> it was a Trend micro Officescan process. Once I'd run HijackThis, it
> showed me where the exe was and I tracked it down and noticed it had a
> weird icon (small brown dog). I then looked this up in google and
> found someone who'd found the same thing and the last post mentioned
> something about Trend. I phoned Trend and they confirmed it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Timboi

Excellent! What a great job of troubleshooting you did! Thanks for
taking the time to post back with this very useful information.

Malke 

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