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Weird (rogue?) programs being picked up by ZoneAlarm
Hi, Franklin, Thanks, I did that. As far as I know Norton is up to date -- and have done a few downloads manually rather than auto-update just in case. I even tried it in Safe Mode scan, and everything showed up clean. (Yeah, right.) Some of these things are quite nasty in how they embed...- CarolynP
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- Forum: Security, hacker detection & forensics
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Weird (rogue?) programs being picked up by ZoneAlarm
... and what is "mdal.exe"? A few times recently (since installing htastop?) I've seen an error message that mdal.exe "failed to initialize properly" and the application would be terminated. Probably another symptom of the preceding post's maladies. One more detail: the...- CarolynP
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- Forum: Security, hacker detection & forensics
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Weird (rogue?) programs being picked up by ZoneAlarm
Hi, folks, My computer has been acting very weird. Ultimately downloading htastop.exe has brought welcome stability, but before that ZoneAlarm picked up new programs on every restart -- usually four alpha characters (the first three lower-case) followed by ".exe". Only one or two of...- CarolynP
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- Replies: 9
- Forum: Security, hacker detection & forensics
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Search for files is misbehaving
What a great forum. This "search doesn't work" business has been bothering me for weeks. Googling didn't turn up any solutions. But 3 minutes here on this forum (and then 10 minutes disabling the dang thing) did it. Thanks, everyone. CarolynP- CarolynP
- Post #6
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
