In article <
2tGdnXDnBZL_l-fJ...@giganews.com>,
sp...@flippers.com says...
>
> On 11/29/2014, 8:46 AM, William Sommerwerck wrote:
> > To make a long story short... I accidentally opened an e-mail attachment
> > I shouldn't have. (I had a "good" reason for doing so.) Wondering if its
> > executable was lurking anywhere, I ran Process Explorer -- and there it
> > was. Two clicks, and it was gone.
> >
> > I will, of course, double-check the next time I restart.
> >
> >
http://download.cnet.com/Process-Explorer/3000-2094_4-10223605.html
>
> In case folks here don't like opening links in postings (one never
> knows) I did a quick search for "Process Explorer" and it looks quite
> valid. My link for Microsoft's musings:
>
>
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
>
> "Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open?
> Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which
> handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded."
>
> You might as well download from MS - or is the cnet version newer?
>
> John :-#)#
Right and the reason for it being open is to scan your current apps that
are running and if there is one of interest, it then can gain access to
the app and do things like look at the client area, check menu settings
etc..
Do not trust CNET down loads.... A good many and I say many apps that
are hosted by CNET have been repackaged and tricks set up to get you to
install what You don't want to start with..
I got trick by that once from them when I wanted to down load something
they had, what they did was repackage it so the item you wanted was
actually a down load tool bar and then it would open up the app you
wanted which was the name of the tool bar I didn't want.. In short
they switch the names around and made it deniable by them because they
could make claim that the user clicked on the wrong one and in fact that
wasn't the case.
I later found out what was happening day by day, I would see these
little apps being installed on my PC and a new ICON being added to the
desktop.. they were spamming me with promotional software etc..
Trying to remove that was very tricky because they installed two
different apps, one monitor's the other so if you remove one from the
task window, the other would see it and restart it again. Not only
that, they would rename it so I had to find the master file.
I had to go into safe mode and fix the reg etc..
Jamie