ScanMail 3.52 - Exchange 5.5 - Can't Kill SmexSMon.exe Processes

[SteveMCSE]

Hello everyone!
I have 11 Exchange servers, 1 in the HQ and 1 in each of 10 sites. I am experiencing a problem in which the 1 in HQ has the SmexSMon.exe process running 18 times and I can't kill it. When I stop the services I still can't kill it. I was having problems updating the ScanMail engine, definitions, and other components so I thought this was related, but it's evidently not. I got the update problems resolved. Any ideas why this process is running so many times? It's not even running at all on the other 10 exchange servers.
Thanks in advance.
Steve

 

[SteveMCSE]

I found a way to kill the processes. I used Psexec to run a cmd prompt as the system.

C:\>psexec -s cmd

then I used pskill to kill the processes

C:\>pskill -t SmexSMon.exe

I had to do this for each of the 18 listed processes and they are all gone now. But that doesn't explain why they were they to begin with. I am still open to information regarding that if anyone has it. Thank you so much.
Steve