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Hfdrv.exe process in Task Manager
Name: pacer Date: January 2, 2004 at 09:25:12 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 833/512
Comment:
Hi,
The above process started appearing in the Task Manager after I inadvertently opened a suspicious email attachment. Its effects are similiar to the pup.exe, but unlike the latter I could not shut it off from the Startup with 'Msconfig', because even after rebooting using 'Diagnostic Startup', when unchecked the process (actually 2 processes in HKCU and HKLM respectively), still reloads after the restart. Moreover, when I deleted its registry entries, they immediately appeared again in both Classes and Machine. I also located the actual file in the System32 folder, but when i tried to delete it the system doesn't allow me since it's running. Shutting it off via Task Manager is useless since it immediately restarts, even when ending the whole 'Process Tree'. Both Spybot and Adaware failed to remove it. Can anyone help?
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