I was looking around at processes running and saw this. Looks susupucious. wowexec.exe what is it.... Marshall

if you doenloaded kazaa or something of the sort it is most definitely adware. to get rid of it search google for "adware removal tools".

It is the MS 16 bit application launcher. It belongs there.Rgds

I misread the post. It need not be running in processes but it is a valid windows file. Rgds.

See this article. WOW I've also been told there are two Wow's, and one is adware. You may have a virus or trojan or worm or adware or some other sort of malware. Run an AV scan, and download AdAware and Spybot, install them, update them, and run. Delete anything that looks suspicious. Some advise deleting everything because it's all reversible. Also get Spyblaster which keeps a list of bad stuff on your computer and blocks them from being installed (theoretically). Be sure your independent (not MS’s) firewall is enabled. If you had in mind running Hijack This as well, and posting your log, don’t until after you’ve run the two programs below. Then if you want to run HJT and post the log, do so in the Security and Virus settings and say you’ve run these two al-ready. If you don’t do this, the forum moderator will delete your post. Spybot AdAware

Hey Marshall, Gabep & Salgolf are right, according to this: http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/80431.html ...the adware version is _wowexec, so if your process doesn't have the _underscore at the start of the name, then you're probably fine... svg