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   HankG to All   
   Unknown program: Trojan/spyware/whatever   
   07 Sep 10 14:36:16   
   
   From: hgxrp@yahoo.com   
      
   When I shut down my XP box, sometimes (usually after the box has been   
   sitting idle for a couple of hours), it is very slow shutting down.  I will   
   get popups saying this program is not responding; end now.  The programs are   
   usually recognizable as being part of windows.   
      
   Yesterday, while going through this gyration, a program was listed:  the   
   name was a string of about 15 Asian characters.  I shudder to think what it   
   might be, and tried spybot, but didn't find it.  I started to look through   
   the Windows folders, but gave that up.  Ran msconfig and there were no   
   unusual entries.  I have WinPatrol which usually warns when something is   
   installed (usually turn out to be updaters).   
      
   Would anyone know if there are 'usual' folders where these programs hang   
   out.   
      
   Thanks.   
      
   HankG   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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