re: Virus Scan found potentially unwanted programs
Friday, August 22, 2003 at 9:53 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
Ran into the same problem tonight on a friends machine. McAfee just did a major
update and is now calling out "unfriendly" programs as potential problems. Programs
that do nothing useful but take up processor bandwidth. It hit on FELIX, a cat that
walks across the screen.
KillWind.exe is a utility program that HP includes in their software packages.
It is part of their BackWeb software. Software that allows their tech's to call into
your machine when you have a problem and try to fix it (under warranty). The KillWind.exe
file is a program they may use that "kills" or terminates any running or background
process. So it is just a HP software utility.
I guess McAfee is now calling it an undesirable program because, it could be used
by a virus program to terminate McAfee's AV programs and firewalls.
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