Mike Young wrote:
20020226064417.RIYB1289.lakemtao04.cox.net@Mike"> Hi Manuel,
It does sound suspicious. Is it in the Startup folder? NO
20020226064417.RIYB1289.lakemtao04.cox.net@Mike"> Can you right click it there and look at the properties. NO the only place is appears is when you do Billys three finger salute and the "Close Program" window pops up. Here is where an entry name: robot appears. This tells me that it is a progrram running in the background. I can select "end task" and remove it but next time I rebot it appears again !
20020226064417.RIYB1289.lakemtao04.cox.net@Mike"> Sometimes the folder it lives in can tell you at least what program controls it. I would search your registry for the word "robot" and see what comes up.I have done this and nothing. I tried "robot", robot* and nothing.
20020226064417.RIYB1289.lakemtao04.cox.net@Mike"> If you kill the task does it appear to cause any adverse reaction? If not then I would do this first thing every time you boot up until you figure out how to kill it permanently. It is always a good idea to do the 3 finger salute and be familiar with what is running on your computer. I do it at least once a day.
Best regards,
Mike Young
--Original Message Text---
From: Manuel de Aguiar
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:52:22 -0800
Hi Mikes,
I have a weird situation that started a few days ago. do the three finger salute to see what is running pretty often. 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. appears nowhere in the registry, system.ini, or win.ini. AntiVirus and Lavasoft spyware sees nothing wrong but I know this is new and the name sound terribly suspicious. 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? 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
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