Re: Cannot open windows task manager

From: Rich Barry (rbarry_at_socal.rr.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:26:30 GMT

    This was taken from Kelly's site.
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm Select T and scroll to Task
Manager.
            Task Manager only opens for a few seconds, then closes:

This behavior can be caused by a virus. One of three:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.worm.html
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.gen@mm.html
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.yaha.e@mm.html

"bobman" <bobman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:988D6AFC-A4C8-424A-AF42-AA766D336457@microsoft.com...
>I can't open Windows Task Manager. If I click ctrl-alt-det, the task
>manager
> will flash on the screen for about one second then it disappears. The
> same
> things happens when I try to access the Task Manager by right-clicking the
> taskbar. Any ideas on what could be the problem?

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