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kgkia33
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join:2002-02-16
Wilkes Barre, PA

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trouble causing mysterious pop-up

hey i dont think anyone else would happen to have this problem, but i thought it wouldnt hurt to check. on the past weekend i shut down my pc and left the house. i came home sunday night and my pc was still running. one of those "program is still running, end task" pop-ups was on my screen. the program that my pc was trying to close was "html package." i have no programs on my pc that are named html package, and the problem went away for a little when i uninstalled zonealarm pro 3.0 and used sygate instead. then the problem was gone and i got zap 3.0 again and it is popping up again. does anyone know what this is because i really dont want to use sygate instead of zap i like the new zonealarm. thanks. in case it is unclear, the pop-up appears when i attempt to restart my pc.
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forgot to say that im using windows xp home.

Bach
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Flint, MI

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This is a known trojan. It starts up from a program called OPENME.EXE

If you have a utility to view your startup programs (such as MSCONFIG) look if OPENME.EXE is running at startup. Change it so that it doesn't run.

kgkia33
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join:2002-02-16
Wilkes Barre, PA

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thanks for the advice. openme.exe was not listed in msconfig. im gonna post again and show all the programs that are running. another thing is that when i try to start norton antivirus it NEVER opens up (maybe a virus is affecting it). thanks.
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heres the programs. the first picture ends with directcd and the second begins with directcd.
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i just discovered that my system is running openme.exe. i see it under the task manager "processes" list. anyone know of any uninstallation instructions? i saw a thread on openme.exe here at dslr but i cant find it now.
kgkia33

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i fixed it thanks romcat i would have had no idea what the hell was wrong i never even heard of openme.exe.