Ack!
<div class="IPBDescription">Something keeps starting randomly</div> As the title states, there's some process that decides to start at random times when I'm on my computer, and it closes half a second or less later. This wouldn't be much of a problem if it didn't <b>bring focus to itself</b>, making anything else loose focus (minimizes fullscreen OpenGL and Direct3D apps (a.k.a. games), and it also makes it annoying when using Flash-based applications with my keyboard [a.k.a. web games]). Though random, it can wait until the perfect time to screw with my mind, like when a Fade blinks up to me, one of the asassin ladies from Return to Castle Wolfenstein pops out of the wall, or I start getting really fast and see some spikes in <a href='http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=151706' target='_blank'>The Ultimate Flash Sonic</a>. I've scanned for viruses (Norton) and spyware/adware (Ad-Aware) several times, but to no avail. It keeps popping up. Can some one help me? I'm on WinXP Media Center.
On a possibly related note, Norton Anti-Virus flips out when I browse into the Windows folder, apparentley a program called av.exe is a virus that it doesn't know how to handle, or even quarantine :\
On a possibly related note, Norton Anti-Virus flips out when I browse into the Windows folder, apparentley a program called av.exe is a virus that it doesn't know how to handle, or even quarantine :\
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and if the virus is an unrelated thing and whatever is popping up is something else, check your windows task scheduler (if that still exists? did it disappear with windows 98?), or your startup menu and stuff... or check the properties of whatever other programs you have running in the background...
No, seriously. Just back everything up and start again. Better luck next time, try not to get infected.
The pop-up thing must be adware, try Spybot: Search & Destroy <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> Best of Luck!
~ DarkATi
A) Get it out, ideally
B) Get frustrated and play some ultra-minimize NS
I think it has something to do with svchost. That process (Which I know it is system-essential, Service Host) has more than one instance open a lot, and sometimes closing them has no effect on my computer whatsoever :\
And I can kind of catch a glimpse at the icon that pops up in the taskbar, it's like a little movie-film icon...
[EDIT]4 svchot.exes running right now, two are being runned by System, the other two from local and network services. [/EDIT]
[EDIT: A PREQUEL] What in the... Well, I guess I removed av.exe completely. Last time I remember trying to delete it, it said I couldn't because I didn't have adequate access, even though I've got administrative privlages :\ That happens a lot with porn icons that randomly start showing up, which has stopped happening since I installed Norton Anti-Virus and Firewall...