Command Prompt Suddenly Opens & Closes??????

[NomisST]

I use Windows 2000 Pro, I just finished building my comp and eveyrthing has been going fine until up to this point. This recently started happening last night, when I was downloading off of Bittorrent. I woke up this mourning going to my PC and seeing that every 10-30 seconds command prompt opens automatically for less then a second and closes right back up. This is really bad for me because I play games and it kicks me out of them when this happens! Does anyone have any thought of what is going on?

*Note* - I ran Adware Scanner as well as Norton. Nothing came up...please help thanks.

 

[ITJunkie]

Check your processes and also look to see if there is something in your scheduler. It sounds like an applet or utility is scheduled to fire off at regular intervals.

 

[VicodiN]

Do you have mIRC installed? If so, uninstall and see if that does it... There have been reports of mIRC causing that problem... I cant recall why exactly

 

[NomisST]

For ITJunkie, I already checked, all I have are norton anti-virus software scheduled virus checks, for the processes I closed them all except for the ones that cannot be closed and they still popped up. For VicodiN yes I do have mIRC installed. I deleted it and re-installed it and it still did that. I caught the Command Prompt Once in a blink of a second and there was nothing in the box. One time that it lagged and the command prompt opened I saw a quick glance and it said something like Windows 2000 has finished......and I didn't catch the rest. It keeps doing this. Man this really sucks, I do not want to have to reformat just for this little problem...

 

[NomisST]

Ok I got a long look at the message this time, it lagged for like 3 seconds. It said something like Something has been resolved DNS Cache, and it does that over and over. If this happens again I will piece the words together...man this is so annoying

 

[NomisST]

Finally I have seen it. For some reason there is something automactically going into command prompt doing c:\>ipconfig /flushdns. The Message is: <Successfully Flushed the DNS Resolver Cache> It keeps coming every 30 seconds popping up out of no where. It kicks me out of all my anime movies and my games.........can someone help please?

 

[VicodiN]

Uninstall mIRC - do not reinstall, and see if it still does it..
Also disable telnet by doing the following :

- Start, type 'services.msc'
- Scroll down to 'Telnet', double click.
- Change 'Startup Type' to DISABLED.
- Apply, OK

Should also install a firewall of some type to see what kind of traffic you have going in and out... I mean, it sounds like some sort of 'trojan' which is wh0ring your bandwidth (i know you did a virus scan.) you may also wish to try a different virus scan, just to cover everything...

Panda Software offers a free online scanner (at the link provided.)...

 

[NomisST]

Ok, the mIRC I uninstalled it and waited and it still was doing it, so I disabled the telnet like you told me too it seems to be working, but here is the big thing. I just used Trend Micro Housecall and they found this: malware.WORM_AGOBOT.P that sounds like a pretty nasty virus. It is really weird cause I had this computer up 2 weeks ago and have only been using it for less then 2 weeks and already a virus! I've been using my other PC for over 2 years and never one virus.....until MSBLAST.....anyway thanks. If this still happens I will be sure to post another message, thanks again. The master genius everybody: VicodiN!