pw_age.exe

[venmaz]

I have one laptop in office that has problems at startup.
I checked in processes, a process called pw_age.exe is running, pinning cpu @ 100%. It never seems to stop, I have to kill it. After killing, everythign returns to normal.
any ideas what it is? Could not locate specifics on search.
win2k.
thanx in advance

 

[erikhertzel]

I would download Hijack This from the following and run a scan and post your results here:

http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip

You might have a virus or spyware and we will look at this process...

Erik

 

[venmaz]

ha, shoulda tried that first, will give it a go.
Weird thing though, after 3rd reboot, the pw_age.exe did not initialize, its gone...very weird....
Ill see if it pops up again tomorrow.

 

[tuco7]

If you use or got Soloris Systems Programing on your computer PW_AGE is part of it

 

[venmaz]

Will check for that Tuco. Its a work laptop, no idea why they would have that on laptop.
Strange thing, it did not start this morning when I boooted up laptop, no pw_age in processes. It was there yesterday.

 

[venmaz]

ooohh...SUN...
Looks like their SOLORIS 10 may have memory leak in 'getpwuid'.
Of course I cant read the fix because I dont subscribe to Soloris.
But that program is not installed on the lapotp. What else could be running besides Sol10. I alos installed latest Java 5.0, they had no java installed. Maybe that will fix it....

 

[venmaz]

ack..i rebooted and pw_age is there again, it was not there on the first boot this morning.
Running Hijack...

 

[venmaz]

AHA!!!
hijack this -
\"ourserver"\NETLOGON\pw_age.exe
hmmm...the 'ourserver' is our printer server.
What could it be doing...?

 

[erikhertzel]

Please send the entire log of the HJT so we can analyze it.

Erik

 

[tuco7]

getpwuid looking for user ID and has pw-age looking for a password, thats why its draining the CPU at startup

Perhaps rename pw-age for now in case you may beed it later on.