Yesterday I happened to noticed I had TWO "explorer.exe" listings in the cont-alt-del "Task Manager". I never noticed this before and I'm pretty sure I would have noticed it if they had always been there. I did a system wide search for "explorer.exe" and only found the ONE file that's supposed to be in the Windows folder, plus the one in the DLL cache folder. I of course ran the anti-malware programs (HijackThis, SpyBot, AdAware, etc.), and did a manual scan with my AV software, on all partitions and they are all CLEAN! (Yes, all hidden files and system files were shown and visible during the scans). My Start Up folder has nothing it in that I didn't put there. It does NOT show all of the time, sometimes I cont-alt-del and there's only the one explorer.exe. I have had no firewall alerts.
I *AM* able to shutdown/terminate with no problem one of the explorer.exe entries in the Task Manager that has the smallest memory usage; of which this one I am suspect. I of course did searches on this (such as: "two instances of explorer.exe", "2 instances of explorer.exe", "two explorer.exe", and "2 explorer.exe") and they all seem to point to a Trojan or malware of some kind, yet again, all scans show clean! I heard about something called "DlDer" adding an extra explorer.exe, but I don't have that file either! Sometimes, that's SOMETIMES, I am able to duplicate the appearance of the 2nd explorer.exe when I open a folder. But, it doesn't show up every time I open a folder! I just noticed moments ago when I tried to delete a folder inside another folder, that I could NOT delete the folder. I closed the folders and tried again, still couldn't delete it. I opened the folder again, then opened the Task Manager and that 2nd explorer.exe was there, so I stopped it, and this time the folder closed! I then closed out of the 2nd explorer.exe and this time opened the folder again was able to delete this folder I could not previously delete! Now this latest event sounds like this: http://www.laurenceholbrook.com/TechnicalInformation/FolderSharingError.html So I'm wondering now if I am indeed infected with something that nothing will identify, or, is some other type of issue like the sharing violation? Could someone on XP SP2 check their Task Manager a few times and see if you have the 2 explorer.exe entries listed? I DO have "restore previous folder windows at logon" checked, but I always have had that checked and I never noticed this before. Thanks, -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ) http://ComputersCustomBuilt.com ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
