What is this, and where did you get it?

  It's not a standard part of any Windows OS that I know of.  The name
suggests some kind of disk utility, but why would that ever need to access
the Internet?

  The fact that it reinstalled itself after a reboot is highly suspicious.
Is your antivirus running and up to date?  I suspect a virus or trojan not
previously known by this filename.

Dave Gillett


On 12 Sep 2003, at 15:21, Ronald Ellstrom wrote:

> The chkfat.exe is a process that runs on my computer and consumes quite a
> bit of memory,also uses up to 99% of my CPU as well as accessing the
> internet. The result is a big slow down of my system. When I end the
> process in the Windows Task Manger nothing seems to be affected. It
> resides in my Windows/System32 folder (Windows XP Home). I even renamed
> it _chkfat.exe but when I restarted my computer there was chkfat.exe as
> well as _chkfat. I have run searches in Google, Microsoft and others to
> no avail. HELP! What is it, do I need it and how do I get rid of it. I
> have Diskeeper software installed, is it maybe associated with it?
>
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