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Ptsnoop,exe
Name: dc Date: January 1, 2001 at 08:26:17 Pacific
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What is this for and how did I get? Should I keep it running in back ground? and why?
It seems to be associated with your modem. Look here:
http://www.vnunet.com/ReadersToTheRescue/8681
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Response Number 2
Name: bob Date: January 1, 2001 at 09:13:52 Pacific
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ptsnoop.exe is a trojan, go to yahoo search and type in ptsnoop.exe for a search and look at the results of your search.
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Response Number 3
Name: bob j. Date: January 1, 2001 at 09:23:39 Pacific
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I may have spoken a little too soon in my last post. Go to this sit and get more accurate information on ptsnoop.exe http://www.windows-help.net/bbs/Forum2/HTML/007982.html
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Response Number 4
Name: PT Snoopy Date: January 1, 2001 at 09:45:24 Pacific
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http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/57827.html Read the above about that virus, oops I mean program. On that, responses 3 and 32 appear to be the voices of reason on this topic.
it does nothing but lock up your pc. run sysedit and look for ptsnoop.exe. when you find it put a ; in front of the line. You modem and pc do not need it
it does nothing but lock up your pc. run sysedit and look for ptsnoop.exe in your win.ini file. when you find it put a ; in front of the line. You modem and pc do not need it
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Response Number 7
Name: Grubber Date: January 1, 2001 at 15:34:13 Pacific
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I have that file on on my system win98, i've had it since the day i bought it and could never figure out what it was. I'll check out some of these links.. Cool! Also if your running win98 you could disable it by useing msconfig, which i did long long ago.. hehe ..
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Response Number 8
Name: Brad howoules Date: January 2, 2001 at 22:53:42 Pacific
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ptsnoop.exe is a partition diagnosis tool ,it has nothing to do with a trojan,or a virus.As a matter of fact if you get rid of it most likely you will be more open for attacks,as this executable file comes with win98.
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