Win NT: unwanted disk administrator loaded by chemical.exe

dullard

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A WinNT computer (service pack 6) has a program c:\winnt\system32\chemical.exe that loads every time a user logs in. I've used many WinNT computers, and I've never seen chemical.exe in a Windows folder. Anyways that file load the Disk Administrator every time someone logs in. I obviously can delete that registry key and prevent the loading. However my question is why is there a chemical.exe, why did it get set to automatically load, and what does it have to do with disk administrator?

The normal disk administrator is still in the system32 folder (windisk.exe).

Chemical.exe is about 30kB larger than windisk.exe and it was created a short while ago while windisk has the correct date.
 

dullard

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Ok I found the culprit, chemical.exe. Bump to see if anyone has heard of this.