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HELP....Pup.exe ??????
Name: Christina Date: November 21, 2003 at 17:11:55 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: Celeron 356
Comment:
I have noticed a process running on start up named 'pup'. The process comes up as 65679568.exe. When I search for pup...I can find it..but that hasn't helped much as I can't seem to find out what this is. Does anyone have any clue and could help me???
Name: hacad Date: November 21, 2003 at 17:31:15 Pacific
Reply:
pup.exe is a popup ad generator. Try downloading and running either or both adaware and/or spybot to see if they pick it up.
If you have trouble deleting the file because windows is using the file.
go to Start-Run type msconfig select the startup tab and look for the file in the list, when you find it uncheck the box and restart, you should be able delete it now.
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Response Number 2
Name: Kevin Date: November 21, 2003 at 17:32:58 Pacific
Summary: By reading more into this I have found that I think I have a new variant of the Trojan. However I think I can still help those with previous versions. So far it appears to be gone. I have deleted pu...
Summary: When opening up "My Computer" icon or any other Windows Explorer window I get an error box of the following:- (Header) Project1 (Body) Run-time error '13': (Body) type mismatch (end) Since I have had ...
Summary: It's nice to know I'm not the only one with that weird pup.exe. I ran AdAware, and it labeled the Registry key as Malware. Also, I know it's linked to a folder called ddm on my computer, but I don't...
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