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From: jac (jac_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/19/04


Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:49:05 -0700

Hi, In the past several weeks, there are unknown file with names like

194729.exe or
26b9e97.exe
install in the c:\Documents and Settings\user name\Local Settings\Temp\
directory.

Each file has a file size of 24 and the time stamp of all files is on the
hour, i.e., there is one file installed on the clcok each hour. It ran by
itself and generate a dos window and an error message that file causes a
problem.

It caused no other problems and I just deleted the files in the past two
weeks until this morning I could not turn on my computer at all. I got a blue
screen with full creen of messages of errors and the machine is shot down and
reboot again by itself. The blue screen with error messages happened at
different points before the windows desktop screen starts (after typing my
user id and password).

Anyone know if the two problems are related and what happened? Thanks

-- 
jac


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