re: dos command file hangs
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adam Bradley
(7826 messages posted)
I would run a virus and malware scan, sounds like you might have a bug in your system.
On Monday, October 5, 2009 at 12:02 pm, david wrote:
>I haven't installed any software recently. Also, I'm very aggressive at keeping
my
>running processes to a minimum. Process Manager only shows 17 *processes* and no
>applications running on my system when I close my browser.
>
>There's now more to the story...
>Also in the past couple of days, something has been deleting my boot.ini and autoexec.bat
>files when I re-boot. A Google search strongly indicated the ASK toolbar, and even
>IE8, but neither program is installed on my computer.
>
>I installed Process Monitor and I was able to capture Services.exe red-handed as
>it deleted boot.ini and autoexect.bat, and attempting to delete two other read-only
>files in my root directory!! I did a binary file compare with services.exe from
another
>computer and there are no differences, which would seem to suggest that services.exe
>is not infected. Various and sundry system scans have turned up nothing.
>
>Of course, there's no way to tell yet if this is related to the command file hanging
>issue but since I have more to go on with the delete issue, I posted my PM log in
>the Sysinternals Process Monitor forum. We'll see what the folks over there come
>up with.
>
>David
>
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