Re: obqhs.exe

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From: Will Denny (willdenny_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:08:26 +0100

Hi

Have you virus-checked your system with the latest definitions for your AV
program?

Also try the following programs to check for any spyware that might be on
your system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp 

-- 
Will Denny
MVP - Windows Shell/User
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"Dave" <nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message 
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> XP pro
>
> Anyone know what obqhs.exe is? I can find no google refs at all. It's 
> appears in the list of processes on my son's PC. Sometimes there are four 
> separate  processes with the same name, all taking around 9 MB of memory. 
> Mostly they take 0% or 1% of system resources, but occasionally up to 99% 
> without actually seeming to do anything. There's no reference to obqhs in 
> msconfig/startup or services tabs but they appear after every reboot. If I 
> end the processes one or more seems to reappear after an interval. Is it 
> adware/spyware/virus/trojan?

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