I just saw this when opening the windows explorer browsing window, and it was on the task manager for a few seconds. I am Paranoid of viruses and am wondering if this is the norm.
Leftover from the win95 days, allows someone to quickly run an DLL as an EXE. Normal to see it when you're launching Explorer.
Edit; EXE --> DLL, rate me box
Edit#2; "as an app" --> "as an EXE", to clarify
It could also be on start up thing, the windows browser is the first thing I opened after task manager, and that's how I saw it
[editline]5th November 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=commandhat;25874333]Leftover from the win95 days, allows someone to quickly run an DLL as an app. Normal to see it when you're launching Explorer.
Edit; EXE --> DLL, rate me box[/QUOTE]
Thanks, VERY Paranoid ever since my most recent virus, it's what got me on this poor computer. :sigh:
[QUOTE=VenomousBeetle;25874343]the windows browser is the first thing I opened after task manager, and that's how I saw it[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Normal to see it when you're launching Explorer.[/QUOTE]
Edit;
[QUOTE]Thanks, VERY Paranoid ever since my most recent virus, it's what got me on this poor computer. :sigh:[/quote]
No problem. Might look into googling HijackThis, and learning how to read HJT logs.
[QUOTE=commandhat;25874333]Leftover from the win95 days, allows someone to quickly run an DLL as an EXE. Normal to see it when you're launching Explorer.
Edit; EXE --> DLL, rate me box
Edit#2; "as an app" --> "as an EXE", to clarify[/QUOTE]
It's not "left over".
[QUOTE=Panda X;25874458]It's not "left over".[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.ehow.com/way_5398581_rundll-troubleshooting.html[/url]
[QUOTE=commandhat;25874506][url]http://www.ehow.com/way_5398581_rundll-troubleshooting.html[/url][/QUOTE]
"Has been around" is not the same as left over. Left over implies it no longer has a purpose yet it's there anyway.
Calling it now: huge argument about when to use the phrase "left over".
I said "left over" because we can easily recompile dlls to be exe's nowadays.
[sp] also rundll32 tended to crash on my old laptop leading me to believe microsoft left it there or some shit like that [/sp]
Edit: FUCK, what's the tags to hide something like a spoiler?
Edit#2; fixed, thanks
[sp] tags not [spoiler] tags
[QUOTE=commandhat;25874817]Calling it now: huge argument about when to use the phrase "left over".
I said "left over" because we can easily recompile dlls to be exe's nowadays.
[sp] also rundll32 tended to crash on my old laptop leading me to believe microsoft left it there or some shit like that [/sp]
Edit: FUCK, what's the tags to hide something like a spoiler?
Edit#2; fixed, thanks[/QUOTE]
dlls could be exes back then too. DLLs are modules loaded and shared by exes. They're not meant to be stand-alone applications.
You also don't need an exe for programs that carry many functions. You don't need lock.exe to lock your computer when user32.dll will do it. (rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation)
Alright it's in System32 folder so it's not a virus, but it wont go away from the manager currently.
What does that mean? is it safe to end?
[editline]6th November 2010[/editline]
It appears to have went away when I rebooted.
[editline]6th November 2010[/editline]
What about when Processes say 50-60 and randomly change, but in the list you can only count 24 or so?
do you have show processes by all users ticked in ?
Not all processes run under your username.
I guess it's fine, full scanning with AVG currently. Nothing in 32, nothing in registry. still going, but this would be faster without windows.old
Then delete windows.old
It's the backup of the previous Windows installation on that partition.
If you are happy with your system you no longer need the backup of the old Windows installation. It's not used.
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