Voepweaer Service?

[Andvari]

What on earth is "Voepweaer" doing in my services.msc? The almighty Google doesn't even have a single site that mentions it. I just did a fresh install of XP, and have been installing my usual programs. It's set to manual, and it isn't running... Might it be malicious?

 

[mechBgon]

Huh A "raw" WinXP installation is vulnerable to worm attack if it has no firewall protection (cable/DSL router and/or firewall software), and I wrote some precautionary stuff here about that. Read it and see if you sent your gladiator out into the arena in his underwear

I can't find any info about that thing either, so it does make you go hmmm. If it were me, and I felt some doubt about it being innocent, I would download the free ZoneAlarm, get an offline updater for my antivirus software (what brand you using?), download this WinXP post-SP1 patch kit, and burn it all to CD, then unplug the network cable, leave it unplugged while setting up WinXP again, get that armor on (ZoneAlarm), and get those weapons honed (install and update antivirus software offline). Now plug in the network cable and head out to Windows Update and also update your antivirus software again. Better safe than sorry.

Also get the free Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 1.2 and run that. It will pick on you for all sorts of stuff. If it says you have weak or blank passwords, definitely address that to thwart share-hopping worms that are trying to hit your system's administrative shares.

 

[Andvari]

That's actually how I reformatted, network cable unplugged. I installed spybot, immunized. I also installed Sygate Personal Firewall. I use AVG, but I forgot to burn that to CD before reformatting so I didn't have it installed before plugging in my cable modem. Oh, and I have the security CD from Microsoft, and a program called AutoPatcher. That way I'm up to date before getting on the net too.

Strangely enough, the Voepweaer has no description, no path to executable, and no start parameters. Apparently it doesn't do anything anyway. I must admit that I did install one or two pieces of pirated software... Maybe that had something to do with it, and maybe that's my punishment (albeit harmless punishment heh) for doing things non-legit. Not my Windows though, that's legit... just a certain popular image editing software.

Either way I'm about to reformat and this time I'll have the antivirus installed before hooking up my ethernet cable.

 

[mechBgon]

Stole a $500+ piece of software, huh?

:frown:

 

[Andvari]

Yeah, I guess I deserve that frowny. Well I just reformatted again, and I didn't install that this time around. So far no Voepweaer either, so I assume that's what was causing it. I guess that's what I get heh. Hopefully you haven't lost all respect for me, because you've been quite helpful in my needs for technical support, and I'm sure I'll be needing more of it sooner or later. At least I was honest.