Manuel, That sounds like something worth looking into. I would go to GRC.COM and look around for that along with checking the virus web sites. You may also want to try the tool I recomended in another message called NeoMoniter that shows you open ports. It is not running on my machine.
Troy >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== >Hi Mikes, >I have a weird situation that started a few days ago. I do the three >finger salute to see what is running pretty often. Although, I am not >quite sure what the heck they all are I can recognize new stuff running. >I am now finding a program that list as "robot" when I do the three >finger salute. It appears nowhere in the registry, system.ini, or >win.ini. Norton AntiVirus and Lavasoft spyware sees nothing wrong but I >know this is new and the name sound terribly suspicious. Following >M.Young suggestion it does not seem to appear in the startup program >list and I am very concerned that this is some new stuff not yet >identified. >Has anyone seen a program call "robot" win98 when they do a three finger >salute? Does anyone knows what this might be? >TIA, >Manuel de Aguiar > >Mike Young wrote: > >>Hi Mike, >> >>Go to Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Information. Once that >>opens then select Tools, then System Configuration Utility. The Startup tab >>has most of the stuff you will see on the Task list. From the name of the >>directories you can figure out what some of it does. Try unchecking some of >>it and see what does not work when you reboot. You can always recheck it. >>It is a trial and error process. I think you will find that very little of it is critical >>to running your machine. AntiVirus stuff usually has 2 or 3 programs running. >>Also check out the Win.Ini tab. The very first folder, Windows, can set some >>programs to run also. >> >>Best regards, >>Mike Young >> >>On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:46:38 -0500, MJS wrote: >> >>>Does anybody know all about the programs that are running in the >>> >>background on >> >>>Win98? Are they all necessary? Is there a place to look that up? When I >>> >>do a >> >>>3 finger salute, I see all sorts of programs running, even multiple times, and >>> >>I >> >>>see these same files running on different computers, so I presume it is >>> >>related >> >>>to the OS, but I don't know what is safe to turn off! >>> >>>Mike Sinclair >>> >>>================================================ >>>TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: >>>Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l >>>================================================ >>>TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l >>>================================================ >>>TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: >>>http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ >>> >> >> >> >>================================================ >>TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: >>Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l >>================================================ >>TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l >>================================================ >>TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: >>http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ >> Troy Sosamon Denver Co [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
