re: Virus Scan found potentially unwanted programs
Saturday, August 23, 2003 at 7:53 am
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Posted by Marjorie Shenberger
(17 messages posted)
Thank you for a quick response on this. I do have these files quarantined and will
just let them be that way for now. I want to thank you for knowing what this was
; it is nice to be assured that it is nothing real serious to be concerned about
at this time.
On Friday, August 22, 2003 at 9:53 pm, Jack Gulley wrote:
>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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