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Explorer.exe lingers in background
Name: punistation Date: August 5, 2007 at 06:09:03 Pacific OS: WinXP SP2 CPU/Ram: 1GHz/512
Comment:
I'll ocassionaly fire up ProcessXP (or Task Manager), and there will be an explorer.exe sitting there in the list, despite Windows Explorer not being open.
Not taking up resources... no crashes or freezes... Anti-virus scan updated and negative... goes away when I kill the process... but it's still annoying.
Name: punistation Date: August 5, 2007 at 22:59:35 Pacific
Reply:
Okay, let me clarify.
There are TWO explorer.exe's.
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Response Number 4
Name: Tufenuf Date: August 6, 2007 at 05:38:20 Pacific
Reply:
punistation, The location of explorer.exe in Windows XP should be in the C:\Windows folder. There should always be one explorer.exe showing as a running process in Task Manager regardless whether Windows Explorer is open or not. There are some viruses that use this file name so check out the link below. This particular one drops a Explorer.exe file into the C:\Windows\System32 folder in Windows XP.
Summary: After messing around on EXPLORER.EXE with a friend we realized what it was. It's Servudaemon. the EXPLORER.EXE-082F38A9.pf is legit, so don't mess with it. But if you ever see EXPLORER.EXE running in ...
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Summary: Be VERY careful deleting any file called explorer.exe! explorer.exe is the absolute heart of a Windows system...deleting the wrong one (the one in your SystemRoot directoy, also known as C:\windows)...
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