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net.exe & cmd.exe gone mad!
Name: elyseah Date: January 16, 2004 at 19:51:12 Pacific OS: XP Professional Ver. 2002 CPU/Ram: INTEL CELERON CPU 1.70GHz
Comment:
The system starts loading net.exe and cmd.exe 10+ times (I checked when I hit alt + ctrl + del) by itself and I think it slows down my computer. But when I check back 5-7 minutes later, everything looks normal again...what's going on? I usually just have trillian, winamp, winmx and IE running.
Name: Johnw Date: January 16, 2004 at 20:56:21 Pacific
Reply:
1st step , run a virus check from 1 or all of these . Online Virus check ( free ) http://housecall.antivirus.com/ http://www.coledata.com/virusalert.htm http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/misc/av.php http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/activescan-com.asp http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ http://www.bitdefender.com/ http://www.stop-sign.com/
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