I hopped on this afternoon to determine what damage the wife and I had done to the bank account after Christmas shopping... and for some odd reason today FireFox would hang and I could immediately hear the hard drive start churning. Crash dump maybe? But no instant windows message notifying as such. Hmm...
Immediately I check the task list as well as AntiVir... AntiVir is happy as a pig. The task list shows this entry for BeepApp.exe. I dig... it has no properties and is hiding itself in the SysWOW64 directory. It doesn't appear to be a service. Google turns up only a few pages of hits, most being foreign, pretty much all asking "What is BeepApp.exe?" No one seems to know.
Kill the process. Hello... it takes a second and comes back with a vengeance. Hrm... Open up the hex editor and look for a string table or constants list, nothing. Looking at the import symbol table, that gets scary... it's importing things like GetUserCP, CreateThread, CreateMutex, among other things like virtual memory functions. This can't be good.
Search the registry... nothing except the MRU entries from me looking for it, as well as a lone entry in the SharedDLL section. Now what is BeepApp.exe doing as a shared DLL? And why is FireFox locking up ONLY at my bank account all of a sudden?
So, armed with just about nothing (and an impending reinstall of Vista come Phenom II), I take a gamble (after exhausting a bunch of other resources like disabling services and whatnot), I open up task manager & explorer and attempt to delete the offending file. Interesting... it catches the process as "in use" the first time. End process again and quickly hit try again, and away the file goes. Lucky.
Afterwards, a reboot later no service/runtime errors, and I can log into my bank account in FireFox again.
So long story short... anyone have any idea what BeepApp.exe is?
Immediately I check the task list as well as AntiVir... AntiVir is happy as a pig. The task list shows this entry for BeepApp.exe. I dig... it has no properties and is hiding itself in the SysWOW64 directory. It doesn't appear to be a service. Google turns up only a few pages of hits, most being foreign, pretty much all asking "What is BeepApp.exe?" No one seems to know.
Kill the process. Hello... it takes a second and comes back with a vengeance. Hrm... Open up the hex editor and look for a string table or constants list, nothing. Looking at the import symbol table, that gets scary... it's importing things like GetUserCP, CreateThread, CreateMutex, among other things like virtual memory functions. This can't be good.
Search the registry... nothing except the MRU entries from me looking for it, as well as a lone entry in the SharedDLL section. Now what is BeepApp.exe doing as a shared DLL? And why is FireFox locking up ONLY at my bank account all of a sudden?
So, armed with just about nothing (and an impending reinstall of Vista come Phenom II), I take a gamble (after exhausting a bunch of other resources like disabling services and whatnot), I open up task manager & explorer and attempt to delete the offending file. Interesting... it catches the process as "in use" the first time. End process again and quickly hit try again, and away the file goes. Lucky.
Afterwards, a reboot later no service/runtime errors, and I can log into my bank account in FireFox again.
So long story short... anyone have any idea what BeepApp.exe is?
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