S
Shelley
I'm running Windows XP Pro, and when I logged onto my
computer this morning, the cmd.exe was popping up, and
flooding my task manager. If I killed it, it would just
keep coming back, resulting in hundreds of instances of
this process running, which was eating up all of my RAM
and causing my computer to freeze. I'm pretty sure it has
to do with the 'socks.exe' application that I found in the
task manager. I ran several scans, including my fully-
updated Norton anti-virus software, to no avail, however,
I found one site that told me to load up in Safe Mode and
delete all of the associated 'socks' exe files. I have
done that, several times, and still nothing is working,
the cmd.exe application keeps running out of control. Is
there anything else I can do?
computer this morning, the cmd.exe was popping up, and
flooding my task manager. If I killed it, it would just
keep coming back, resulting in hundreds of instances of
this process running, which was eating up all of my RAM
and causing my computer to freeze. I'm pretty sure it has
to do with the 'socks.exe' application that I found in the
task manager. I ran several scans, including my fully-
updated Norton anti-virus software, to no avail, however,
I found one site that told me to load up in Safe Mode and
delete all of the associated 'socks' exe files. I have
done that, several times, and still nothing is working,
the cmd.exe application keeps running out of control. Is
there anything else I can do?