Manuel, In a Dos window from the root directory of each drive try: DIR robot*.* /s/p
Ben On 25 Feb 2002, at 23:40, Manuel de Aguiar wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Mike Young wrote: > > > Hi Manuel, > > > > It does sound suspicious. Is it in the Startup folder? NO > > > > 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 ! > > > > 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. > > > 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 > > > > ================================================ > > 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/ > > > > > > > > > > > > ================================================ 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/
