Re: MSCONFIG startup list

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From: Thorsten Matzner (tmatzner_at_gmx.net)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:30:52 +0200

"Janet" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>You may think that people don't take what you recommend
>to heart, but I've spent a couple if not three weeks
>going over recommendations to get rid of malware on a
>computer. I found some discrepancies, some entries on my
>startup tab were only listed in the command section not
>in the name/item. Since one of these, msblast, I know to
>be associated with a virus, I wonder if the others aren't
>as well. Can you advise me as to whether I should delete
>any of these other than msblast?
>
>XWCTray -- Found only in the command section
>hpcmpmgr -- Found only in the command section
>INSTAN~1 -- Found only in command section
>REGIST~1 -- Found only in command section
>msblast -- found only in command section
>XWMSAPI -- found only in command section

Disable the items to see what they do and if you need them. For more
informations you could feed an Internet search engine with the task
names. For MSBLAST: this is a virus, see "Virus Alert About the
Blaster Worm and Its Variants"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=826955). 

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