Help, fast! What is kill.exe? Some sort of trojan I'm guessing, I just got attacked..

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Help, fast! What is kill.exe? Some sort of trojan I'm guessing, I just got attacked..

Postby Destroyer2000 » Mon Jun 21, 2004 12:27 pm

Well, Mom did, in any case. She clicked on our internet service provider icon to go online and the computer crashed. It came up to a blue screen and said something about kill.exe and system file NTSF, and some other things. What is it? I'm doing a Search and Destroy run to try and find spyware, then I'm running a virus scan...dunno what to do about it after that.
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Postby Straylight » Mon Jun 21, 2004 12:46 pm

As far as I can gather from Google, kill.exe is a program which is part of Windows.. so it's not anything evil. Doing the spyware/virus scan is still a good idea though :)
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Postby Destroyer2000 » Mon Jun 21, 2004 6:50 pm

Thanks. I went to Google also, but I didn't understand much of what it said.
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Postby Fsiphskilm » Mon Jun 21, 2004 9:31 pm

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I'm leaving CAA perminantly. i've wanted to do this for a long time but I've never gathered the courage to let go.
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