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srng.exe - good or bad?
Name: puff41 Date: September 13, 2003 at 10:16:36 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: Pentium 4/512 MG
Comment:
Norton Personal Firewall caught srng.exe attempting to access the internet. I don't know what this is and whether it is helpful or not.
What should I do with srng? Let it run? Block it? Remove it?
Name: LU89 Date: September 13, 2003 at 10:33:50 Pacific
Reply:
ShopNav (srng.exe) is a search-hijacker implemented as an Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object, with an updater process run at startup. Here is some info on it and instructions on how to remove it.
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