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Subject:	Virus or what?
From:	Greg De Guzman <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:06:45 +0800
Content-Type:	text/plain
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I'm troubleshooting a friend's computer that started behaving erratically
that shows a pop-up after about 5 minutes that says "windows is shutting
down due to a ____ terminated process". The pop-up starts a timer within
itself  after which the system re-starts. This process repeats itself
ad-infinitum everytime the computer re-starts.

I thought of peeking through the start-up list and see what the system was
loading and looked for unfamiliar programs. One entry caught my attention,
and it is "msblast.exe". I did a search from the computer's Start Menu for
the "msblast.exe* and it found the ff:

c:\Windows\System32\msblast.exe

c:\windows\Prefetch\MSBLASTEXE-09FF84F2.pf

Deactivating the "msblast.exe" from the Start-up List stopped the process.

What are these files? Are these Virus Payloads? Nothing was detected through
the Norton AV installed with a Virus Definition dated 6/27/03 after
repeating the Scan.

Thanks for any inputs.


Greg

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