tazwegion Posted August 26, 2004 Posted August 26, 2004 Since I installed XP-pro (6 days ago) I've been having to deal (daily) with one incursion or another... this is the latest little horror I've turned up on the LAN It wasn't detected by any of the current 'free' AV products I have, it's called MsUpdate.exe and it installs into your 'startup' folder network wide, then continually attempts to 'dial out' (for what purposes I don't know) Its name would suggest it's a Microsoft Product... but here's the file properties... Deleting it's reasonably easy... but you have to terminate it's process, or it's a no-go Just thought I'd share I hate SCUM-WARE! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishop245 Posted August 26, 2004 Posted August 26, 2004 Have you gotten all the patches, security updates and everything else from M$ Taz it should stop it i think Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazwegion Posted August 26, 2004 Posted August 26, 2004 Not all... I've heard horror stories about SP2 Plus... with all that 'dialing out' (3 instances of MsUpdate)... it ate up most of my meager bandwidth, making d/loading extremely difficult Getting a better AV pack this week, with SP2 included on install disk Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverfox Posted August 26, 2004 Posted August 26, 2004 ooh, i had this problem....turned out to be spyware files that my AVG free didnt like much.....ran adaware, problem solved! i however, have had horrors with SP2 i don;t deserve this! argh! arrrrrgh!! arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazwegion Posted August 27, 2004 Posted August 27, 2004 Which issues did you have with SP2 Silverfox? <_< Also my version of Adaware 6.0 PE didn't detect anything... it was trial & error/LAN fault locating & luck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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