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Manuel de Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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/ >> >> >> >> >> > > -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. 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