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Wscript.exe: Friend or foe?
Name: Mike178 Date: April 18, 2004 at 21:04:44 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home Edition 5 CPU/Ram: Pentium 4, 1.7 GHz 51
Comment:
I have had a few (okay, many) viruses lately. I have been cleaning out my PC since then, but now for some reason a task wscript.exe has been pegging my cpu. Is this a windows proces or something to remove? I have searched google and found many hits on both.
Name: etechdude Date: April 18, 2004 at 22:51:01 Pacific
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WinTasks Process Library
wscript - wscript.exe - Process Information Process File: wscript or wscript.exe Process Name: Windows Script Host Description: Application that allows users to run scripts from Windows. The application displays a dialog box for setting script properties. Company: Microsoft Corp. System Process: No Security Risk ( Virus/Trojan/Worm/Adware/Spyware ): No Common Errors: N/A
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Response Number 2
Name: Mike178 Date: April 18, 2004 at 22:55:05 Pacific
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So why am I at 95-99% all the time with this?
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Response Number 3
Name: ghostandgods Date: April 19, 2004 at 02:03:16 Pacific
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notice its path in your pc XP windows\system32\wscript.exe i think only it is your friend please use hijackthis to scan first and post your log here or http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
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