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[Robert]

Well here is a picture of my task manager, please help me by seeing if there is any keyloggers or any other unwanted programs

thanks,

[SiLeNTScReAM]

smss.exe, whatever that is I turn off and everything runs fine.

WhatPulse is considered a keylogger, yet you already knew that.

What is hpwuschd2.exe? That's a odd name for a exe.

You have alot of exes running also... I have no clue what a keylogger would be named.

[Robert]

What is hpwuschd2.exe? That's a odd name for a exe.

that is my printer update thing

[Cataliste]

hmmm no keylogers but I do see sum programs that had to be added silently, u wudnt add say AOL, I would remove that, IEEXPLORER, I wudnt remove, but I try not to use it.  but yeah no keyloggers/malicious progs of any type

[dolphinbomb]

I thought I read somewhere that smss.exe was a spyware prog.

[Cataliste]

hmmm no keylogers but I do see sum programs that had to be added silently, u wudnt add say AOL, I would remove that, IEEXPLORER, I wudnt remove, but I try not to use it.  but yeah no keyloggers/malicious progs of any type

no its a standard MS thingy. just google it

[Blazin]

ah, genious cataliste lol. xD I have no clue about s*** like that...rofl, but my task manager is filled with 'craploads' of things that I have no clue what they are.. lol

[travis]

yep, all clean! BUT if you get something called J.EXE ITS A BACKDOOR AND NORTON/MCAFFE dont pick it up. I had it, but theres this special task manager that tell you the security risk of it, and it lets you quarintene it so it cant load up again. J.EXE runs as a process I'm/MSN/PM me if u want it!

Edited by Enth E End, 17 August 2004 - 03:18 PM.

[Cataliste]

yep, all clean! BUT if you get something called J.EXE ITS A BACKDOOR AND NORTON/MCAFFE dont pick it up. I had it, but theres this special task manager that tell you the security risk of it, and it lets you quarintene it so it cant load up again. J.EXE runs as a process I'm/MSN/PM me if u want it!

I'm confused..... are u trying to giv ppl this virus or wut?  NEwho, I guess if u have any question (anyopne) post a pic of ur taskman and ill see if u got anything gooffy runnung

[Freidmont]

Posting a screenshot of your task manager isn't a very good way to determine if it's infected..it would be much better if everyone downloaded HijackThis! and posted their logs here.

Edit: It'd probably be good if I explained how to do so. Open the program, click config > Misc Tools > Generate Startup Log. You can then either copy and paste into a forum post, or save & upload the text file (the second option would probably make the thread less crowded).

Edited by Freidmont, 17 August 2004 - 06:35 PM.

[Cataliste]

never herd of taskmgr.exe........I have herd of taskman.exe tho (its windows Task Manager)

[Cataliste]

LMAO! I was rong, taskmgr IS the wondows Task Manager, its no virus

[LightSabre]

Posting a screenshot of your task manager isn't a very good way to determine if it's infected..it would be much better if everyone downloaded HijackThis! and posted their logs here.

Edit: It'd probably be good if I explained how to do so. Open the program, click config > Misc Tools > Generate Startup Log. You can then either copy and paste into a forum post, or save & upload the text file (the second option would probably make the thread less crowded).

If someone is willing to write a formal tutorial for using hijackthis and add in screenshots; perhaps we could have a formal help thread for this like other forums ....... just a thought. 

[Freidmont]

Done. If there's anything I should change, let me know..I used plenty of screenshots

[ShadowLink64]

Post all your logs here:

http://www.neocodex....?showtopic=7265

[xXx$keetchxXx]

umm... no taskmgr.exe is NOT a virus. if that is your way of having fun by telling ppl that they have to close their task manager every ti'me they open it, thats just sick   NEway, if ur SURE its a virus, then every comp I've ever seen running XP has it.

[113]

smss.exe, whatever that is I turn off and everything runs fine.

WhatPulse is considered a keylogger, yet you already knew that.

What is hpwuschd2.exe? That's a odd name for a exe.

You have alot of exes running also... I have no clue what a keylogger would be named.

DO NOT CLOSE SMSS.EXE unless if it is double and one copy runing a diffrent user than SYSTEM

Process File: smss or smss.exe
Process Name: Session Manager Subsystem
Description: Application that is used to start, manage, and delete user sessions or client sessions under Terminal Server.
Company: Microsoft Corp.
System Process: Yes
Security Risk ( Virus/Trojan/Worm/Adware/Spyware ): No
Common Errors: N/A

[Icey Defeat]

ya I found out the hard way one ti'me you cnat delete it

[Fatal]

can sum1 check mine to please ??

[cx323]

I noticed that my task manager recently got a lot of new processes and I was wondering if someone would look at it for me



the second pic is of the rest of te eprocesses, from where I highlighted down.

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Edited by claxt323, 28 August 2004 - 10:19 PM.

[xx_WLT_xx]

smss.exe, whatever that is I turn off and everything runs fine.

WhatPulse is considered a keylogger, yet you already knew that.

What is hpwuschd2.exe? That's a odd name for a exe.

You have alot of exes running also... I have no clue what a keylogger would be named.

hmmm, smss.exe is another microsoft service, WhatPulse is NOT a key logger but it is a KeyStrokes Count and Mouse Clicks Count Logger. If you don't believe me, then I'll even teach you how to cheat WhatPulse by sending the same amount of keystrokes and mouseclicks like what I did