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re: Changes to Sevices Monday, August 18, 2008 at 1:13 am Posted by bob wells (1383 messages posted) Scan for Malware, Virus,Trojans,etc.. Run HJT. Some Malware is capable of Stoppin Scanning Software from running. BW __________________________________________________________ There's nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you. On Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 11:15 pm, prospero wrote: >I've had 2 instances in the past 24 hours of services (services.msc) stopping without >intervention from me. The items were Lavasoft Ad-Aware and AVG Frre8 E-mail scanner. > No M$ updates have been applied during this time. Any ideas? > >size="2" color="#000099">"if all else fails, read the instructions" [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Changes to Sevices Monday, August 18, 2008 at 2:31 am Posted by Spexx (1951 messages posted) Interesting. The AVG 8 Email scanner continually stopping for no reason was one of the things that led to me ditching AVG and installing Avast instead. As for the Ad-aware service aawservice.exe well I have the free version on my PC and deliberately stop that service, because it serves no useful purpose until you run a scan or download an update. The full version has Ad-watch which uses a device driver nsdriver.sys which is a different thing entirely. Anyways I digress and it does look a bit suspicious. Which anti-malware scans have you run on the PC so far? Are you able to restart those services? Cheers. Spexx. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum