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Seclite.exe, what is it?

opersai July 15, 2004 at 21:28:18 Pacific
XP, 256mb

Hi, I've seen seclite.exe on my computer for about a week. I've tried to delete it twice, but doesn't seem work. (I deleted the registry as well). I check on internet for keyword seclite.exe, but not a thing came up. It's in the Prefetch folder, but my antivirus software shows it's in windows/system32 folder. I think it's suspicious, can anyone tell me what it is?

Thank in advance



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Laura2004 July 15, 2004 at 21:33:06 Pacific

I'm not sure of what seclite.exe is, but Process Explorer(a program which tells you many things about your running programs) could help you detirmine what it is.
You can get it at
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml



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JPQ July 16, 2004 at 09:25:52 Pacific

Laura,

I had a question:

When you check your process with Process Explorer should you have an Idle process with no Description or Company name?

A little worried here....lol...?

JPQ



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Laura2004 July 16, 2004 at 19:15:29 Pacific

There could be such things as legitimate idle processes with no company name, or description, such as jusched.exe, a program having to do with Java, which I believe is idle most of the time.
I'm not really the right person to ask, though, because I don't much about that.



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mmalczyk July 21, 2004 at 15:34:38 Pacific

This file was running on 4 of my Windows XP machines and 3 of my Windows 2000 Server machines. When the file was running, proven by the SECLITE.exe process running, each computer was sending constant packets to my gateway router. The router was receiving hundred of packets per second and running at 99% cpu utilization. In short, my network halt becaue my router could not keep up.

This took me five days to track down and finally fix.

In Windows XP you can end the process and delete the file from the PREFETCH folder. However, it will likly regenerate itself the following day, which is what happened to me.

In Windows 2000 you cannot end the process. You actually have to reboot in safe mode, then delete the file from SYSTEM32 and reboot again normally. Again, doing so only resolved the problem for that day. The file and process was back in action the next day.

I tried five different online virus scans and not one could find a problem. I submitted a copy of SECLITE.exe to Symantec and a couple days later they emailed me a URL to download a fix. The fix was actualy an update to my Norton Virus Definition file. My virus definitions were already up to date. Surprisingly, Symantec has not made this fix part of their normal definitions yet.

The procedure to fix the problem was to download the fix, stop the SECLITE.exe process, delete the file from the hard drive, and remove all instances of SECLITE.exe from the registry. I did this on all of my machines and I have not had a problem since. This all happened last week. THis is the URL I used to download the update:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/antivirus_definitions/norton_antivirus/rapidrelease/symcrapidreleasedefsx86.exe

I hope this helps.



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