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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Warlock on February 14, 2003, 01:17:50 pm

Title: Win2K question
Post by: Warlock on February 14, 2003, 01:17:50 pm

Quick ? for everyone. I recently had a little IRCTrojan that I've finally traced down all the left over files and removed. But This morning I've hada hell of a time with crash errors. Ie, Windows Explorer, various win2k default programs (Admin tool etc). One thing I notced in the Dr Watson log where it lists all active programs at the time of the crashes ,... _Total.exe ....which doesn't show up in the task manager.

Is this just a Win2K program or should i be concerned ?

Title: Win2K question
Post by: Ulundel on February 14, 2003, 01:22:46 pm

Hmmm, maybe it's a spyware prog of some sort. Try scanning with ad-aware.

Title: Win2K question
Post by: Fury on February 14, 2003, 01:28:36 pm

There are three softwares which keeps you system clean of s**t.

-Firewall
-Anti-virus
-Spyware remove

Sygate Personall Firewall or ZoneAlarm are good choices for free home software firewalls.

Avast 4 and AVG6 are also available as free versions. AVG6 is recommended for low-end system. (Does not use much resources)

And Ad-Aware 6 or Spybot Search & Destroy are good tools to search and delete spyware and other annoying stuff.

I have XP but I searched for Total.exe, no such file was found.

Title: Win2K question
Post by: Warlock on February 14, 2003, 01:32:26 pm

Yea I find nothing on a search either,....and I've run Norton AV 03 over everything and Adware ....nada.

Title: Win2K question
Post by: Fury on February 14, 2003, 01:34:24 pm

Well, time to reformat OS partition then, eh?
That's be best way to get Windoze back to functional. Until it gets fux0red again. :p

Title: Win2K question
Post by: Warlock on February 14, 2003, 01:47:30 pm

heh I'm debating it.  Just wanna be sure I need to first.


**EDIT**

Nevermind ... form what I'm reading on google ,.. it's normal,..just searching " _Total.exe" Shows everyone that's posting a Waston log file has it as the last item on the running processes section.