On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:12:42PM -0700, Ryan Butler wrote: > >>>Hi everybody. > >>> > >>>My son has a download process, gbn283.exe, running with the > >>>message "Checking the downloaded files". It doesn't show up in > >>>either terminal or activity monitor. > >>> > >>>Any ideas how we can get rid of it? > >> > >>You don't want it anyway. It is a PC program. .exe is PC. > > I think that this may be the key comment. Are you running Virtual PC? Googling on the program name produces quite a few links to tech help websites where you'll find gbn283.exe listed as malware in the output from Windows scanning tools. My guess is that the program is running within Virtual PC, which is why you see nothing in the activity monitor or the terminal window (even if you do "ps -aux"?)
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