w.exe running taking 99% of CPU

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Manuel Fernandez

Hi to all

I'm having problems with my Win 2000 Pro. There is a
process that runs at startup called w.exe and when it runs
it takes 100% of the CPU. I have 2 questions, 1st. How did
I got this file and what is it for? 2nd: How can I get rid
of it or take it away from startup?

What I do every time I reboot is just go to the Task
Manager and end the process w.exe. It seems that nothing
gets affected because systems continues to work properly
after I end this process.

Any help will be appreciate it.

Thanks in advance

Manuel Fernandez
 
I don't know what that file is - do you have good, updated AV software on
the box? Do a full scan. If you don't have some, get some - www.grisoft.com
makes a nice one, and they even have a freebie.
 
I'm having problems with my Win 2000 Pro. There is a
process that runs at startup called w.exe and when it runs
it takes 100% of the CPU. I have 2 questions, 1st. How did
I got this file and what is it for? 2nd: How can I get rid
of it or take it away from startup?

What I do every time I reboot is just go to the Task
Manager and end the process w.exe. It seems that nothing
gets affected because systems continues to work properly
after I end this process.
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A quick search on "w.exe 99%" at google.com turned up this:
<http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/incidents/2001-08/0007.html>
Sounds like you need a good antivirus program.
 
Manuel Fernandez said:
Hi to all

I'm having problems with my Win 2000 Pro. There is a
process that runs at startup called w.exe and when it runs
it takes 100% of the CPU. I have 2 questions, 1st. How did
I got this file and what is it for? 2nd: How can I get rid
of it or take it away from startup?

What I do every time I reboot is just go to the Task
Manager and end the process w.exe. It seems that nothing
gets affected because systems continues to work properly
after I end this process.

Any help will be appreciate it.

Thanks in advance

Manuel Fernandez
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W32.Benpao.Trojan
Discovered: February 17, 2003
See
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.benpao.trojan.html.

Like the other poster mentioned, get an anti-virus program. If you have
one, update it.
 
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