Question about cmd.exe loading....

Shimmishim

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I've never had this issue before.... I just reinstalled win2kpro and every time windows loads up, i see a blank black screen that says

C:\Winnt\system32\cmd.exe on the very top bar...

it shows up for about 5 seconds then disappears... i've never experienced this before and was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what this is and how to get rid of it...
 

MedicBob

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CMD.exe is the command to open a CLI, DOS like prompt.

Weird though. I poked around and Nimda and Code Red virus's searched for that line or something like that. Try an antivirus scanner even though you just reinstalled.

I am assuming you reformatted also prior to reinstalling 2000 and still need to reinstall all your programs. If so I don't see how it could be a virus, but I can't find any other info.


Some one must of had this before. Hopefully they can help, I am interested also.



Bob
 

Shimmishim

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yeah i found a virus.... weird huh?

it was found in c:\winnt\web\printers\images\web.swf

it won't let me clean it... so i might as well just delete the file i guess....
 

Shimmishim

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yup...

looks like i had irc running in the background w/o me knowing.... dunno how that happened... it was installed in the folder i had mentioned before... so i uninstalled it and got rid of it... i think that'll fix my problem...

thanks for teh suggestion!