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Wininit.exe; Is it dangerous?
Name: Infalnus Date: February 26, 2008 at 15:27:52 Pacific OS: Vista 32 bit CPU/Ram: 2046 MB Product: Dell Inspiron 1520
Comment:
I was looking through my processes and saw that I have a process called wininit.exe According to a few sites I went to, it's a Trojan, but it does leave me a little confused because of that. I use a program called Process Explorer, and according to the program, wininit.exe is the start of a process tree that include svchost.exe, which has some important windows functions and some of my McAfee Security Center.
I don't want to delete something that might be very important, so I'm checking here first. I can upload a screen capture of my Process Explorer screen if it would help any.
Name: jabuck Date: February 26, 2008 at 19:32:10 Pacific
Reply:
Usually a baddie.
Please go to Virus Total and use the browse button at the site to find the file, once you find the file double click it and it should appear in the empty space to the left of the browse button> click "send file".
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