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JD
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Undetectable Virus2005-05-03 05:49:52 PM cppbuilder98 I have a virus that's undetectable and I've run *every thing* against it and still it persists. What's happening is that after I launch my browser, after an unspecified period of time, another instance of my browser gets launched that's nothing more than a pop-up. This is compounded by the fact that the second instance installs all kinds of hijackers ect. ect. ... if I don't close it down in time (and Yes, I have disabled 3rd party extensions and restarted). When I used the Task Manager, I shut down every thing that the system didn't need to continue running and I confirmed that all of the registry entries for both Run and Runonce in both the local machine and user were not problematic. Still it persists. I used ther Task Masnager to observe what was happening when it was happening and it seems to me that explorer.exe is connected to my problem. IIRC, explorer.exe used n memory and now it uses n + x memory. This (and other things) lead me to think that my problem is related to explorer.exe. The 'other things' is the fact that my cpu is being flexed (I can tell by when the fan kicks into high gear) and in the Task Manager, at that moment, cpu usage for explorer.exe jumps from 0-02% to 50-80% usage. I did a search of my registry and found several entries related to 'explorer.exe' (none of which I understood). What i need to know is if it's possible to modify the behavior of explorer.exe and if so, what do I need to look for. ~ JD |