Re: HWAPI.exe using excessive cpu.


Do you have a McAfee application installed? If not and HWAPI.EXE is located in C:\Windows\System32 <=this folder, it's was dropped by an RBot-variant.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


snerdly wrote:
Thanks PA Bear. After I posted this thread I
Found the link I was looking for from Ken Blake (also an MVP) =
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html
When I used this to identify HWAPI.exe this is what it said:
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Added by a variant of the RBOT WORM! Note - this is not the McAfee
HackerWatch process which has the same filename
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variant of the Rbot Worm! Should I be worried about this!?

HWAPI.EXE = McAfee HackerWatch Service, part of many McAfee security
applications.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

snerdly wrote:
Can someone help me understand what HWAPI.exe is? Sometimes when I come
out
of standby this bugger takes up around 80% of my processor for 5 to 10
mins.
I thought I had a link for a site that explained what all Programs under
XP
were but the link must not be there any more. Is there a site that has a
list of XP programs, what they do & if they can be removed?

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