>> 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? <<
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